State ex rel. Bankers' Trust Co. v. Walker

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to compel the respondents to consent to the transfer on the books of the Montana Power Company, a foreign corporation doing business in Montana, of certain shares of stock in that company owned, at the time of her death, by Mary E. Lalor, now held by the executors of the last will of decedent, and to return to relators certain sums of money already paid under protest covering the amounts exacted on transfer of such stock heretofore made. Upon filing and presentation of the relators’ duly verified petition, an alternative writ was issued.…