The appellants appealed a trial judgment awarding the respondents damages for oppression.
The trial judge found that the parties had entered into an oral agreement and a shareholders' agreement for the respondents to receive a 20 percent equity share in a new car dealership, which the appellants breached by excluding the respondents and obtaining the dealership through a different corporate entity.
The Divisional Court dismissed the appeal, finding no palpable and overriding error or extricable error of law in the trial judge's conclusions regarding the existence of the agreements, the breach, the respondents' standing as complainants under the Business Corporations Act, and the finding of oppression.
