Lipscomb's Adm'r v. Condon
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeal from Circuit Court, Tucker County. Bill by Lipscomb's administrator against Levi Z. Cofidon and Albert H. Horner. Decree for plaintiff, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
POEEENBARGER, PRESIDENT:
Tliis is a snit in equity against a non-resident defendant, to subject to the payment of a debt, amounting to five thousand ■dollars and interest, by process of attachment and garnishment,' certain shares of stock in a corporation which, the hill, alleges, are the property of the defendant. The case presents a number of questions which seem never to hare been passed upon by this ■Court.
In the absence of any statute upon the subject, shares of stock in a corporation are not subject to execution. Cook on Cor., section 480”; Clark Cor. 1147. By that law, intangible…
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