- 33 - Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agreement was effected without the prior written consent of Mr. Johnston and Jacque Johnston, which, under the May 25, 1990 stock purchase agreement and the September 1, 1990 stockholders’ agreement, was the only restric- tion to which that sale was subject.27 Based on our examination of the entire record before us, we find that petitioners have failed to establish that the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/ Stanford stock purchase agreement was void or voidable.28 We have rejected the only argument that petitioners advance (i.e., that the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agreement was void or voidable) to establish error in the determinations of respondent that Mr. Whitehead received constructive dividends totaling $24,000 during each year at issue 27The May 25, 1990 stock purchase agreement and the Septem- ber 1, 1990 stockholders’ agreement provided that the only restriction that applied to the sale of all of the shares of one minority stockholder to another stockholder was the restriction that required the selling minority stockholder to obtain the prior written consent of Mr. Johnston and Jacque Johnston. Petitioners have pointed to no other restriction that would apply to the sale by Mr. Stanford to Mr. Whitehead of Mr. Stanford’s Burien Nissan stock that was effected by the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agreement, and we have found none. 28Assuming arguendo that petitioners had established that the September 13, 1991 Whitehead/Stanford stock purchase agree- ment was void or voidable, on the record before us, we find that Mr. Whitehead’s Sept. 13, 1991 purchase of Mr. Stanford’s shares of Burien Nissan stock was recognized and ratified by Burien Nissan, Mr. Johnston, Mr. McLaughlin, Mr. Whitehead, and Mr. Watson pursuant to the addendum to the May 25, 1990 stock pur- chase agreement that was executed on Dec. 13, 1993.Page: Previous 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 Next
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