Delta & Pine Land Co. v. Benton

In 1902, The Delta and Pine Land Company, a Mississippi corporation, filed its bill of interpleader in the Superior Court against Henry F. Benton, Susan D. Benton, Alphonso L. Benton, Harriott S. Ward and Charles W. Ward and Henry P. Merriman, executors of the will of George C. Benton, deceased, wherein it alleg’ed that George C. Benton, deceased, in his lifetime was the owner of 2,000 shares of its capital stock, and had transferred 950 shares of said stock to his brother Henry F. Benton, 50 shares to his brother Alphonso L. Benton, and 1,000 shares to Charles W. Ward, and that said shares…