Selover v. American Russian Commercial Co.
California Supreme Court
Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, County of San Francisco. The defendant was a corporation with a capital stock of three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; certificates of stock were duly issued from time to time; and under the act of April 14th, 1853, the stock was transferable only on the books of the company.
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Appeal from the District Court of the Twelfth Judicial District, County of San Francisco. The defendant was a corporation with a capital stock of three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; certificates of stock were duly issued from time to time; and under the act of April 14th, 1853, the stock was transferable only on the books of the company. The same was required by the by-laws of the company, and stated upon the face of the certificates. In September, 1853, Virginia G-. M. H. Sinclair, then sole and unmarried, became the owner of one hundred shares of…
1Opinion of the CourtBurnett, J.
The points made by counsel, arise under the fourteenth section of the eleventh article of the Constitution of this State, and the act of the Legislature of the seventeenth of April, 1850, defining the rights of husband and wife. The questions involved are of no ordinary difficulty, and are important in their character.
At common law,'the civil existence of the wife was merged in that of her husband; she could make no contract. But in equity she was treated as a feme sole, in respect to her separate property. In reference to the mere mode in which she could dispose of her separate estate, there…
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