Corporation Commission v. . Harris

His Honor instructed the jury to answer the issue in the affirmative if they believed all the evidence. In this instruction we think there was error. The stock appeared on the books of the bank as having been issued to and in the name of the defendant but this entry, while prima facie evidence of the defendant’s ownership, is not conclusive; the burden of the issue remained with the plaintiff throughout the trial to satisfy the jury by the greater weight of the evidence that the defendant Harris was a stockholder in the bank, as alleged. White v. Hines, 182 N. C., 276; Austin v. R. R., 187 N.…