- 27 - seemingly contradictory testimony indicates, however, is that Mrs. Harrison’s sons, whether out of filial respect for their mother, respect for her many years of involvement with petitioner, or both, voluntarily chose to operate petitioner by consensus. We suspect that the decision to operate the board by consensus was reached principally out of respect for Mrs. Harrison’s conservative approach to proposals for major expenditures, which, to some extent, carried over to her sons. For example, Myron testified as follows: Q. What type of purchasing decisions would she disapprove of? A. Buying too many new trucks, or too many trucks period. She didn’t like to spend a whole lot of money; she was very tight with the money, so she didn’t like to purchase new trucks. We have the ability to refurbish old equipment, and that’s what she would prefer to see us do. Q. And so sometimes you wouldn’t purchase these trucks, and just go the refurbishing route? A. Exactly; more often than not. James also testified as to the continuing influence of his mother’s conservative approach to purchasing new trucks: Q. * * * were you the one responsible for deciding what trucks to purchase for the company? A. Yeah. Usually we’re a very conservative company, so usually we would get pretty tight on our trucking before we would consider buying some additional trucks * * *.Page: Previous 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 Next
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