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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 * * *.
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