Fiala v. Connecticut Electric Service Co.

The substance of the complaint in the first case is that on February 14th, 1928, the plaintiff was the owner of thirty-six shares of the stock of the defendant corporation, which stood in his name on its books and for which he held the certificate; that on that day the certificate was wrongly taken from his possession and presented to agents of the defendant company, who negligently and wrongfully transferred the stock and issued a new certificate therefor to Roger W. Watkins; that the certificate was thus taken from his possession without his knowledge or consent and without negligence on…