Guilford v. Western Union Telegraph Co.
Supreme Court of Minnesota
Appeal by plaintiff, Jonas Guilford, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Robert Jamison, J., made January 20, 1894, denying his motion for a new trial.
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Appeal by plaintiff, Jonas Guilford, from an order of the District Court of Hennepin County, Robert Jamison, J., made January 20, 1894, denying his motion for a new trial. On February 8, 1882, Asa Guilford owned 370 shares of the stock of the defendant, The Western Union Telegraph Company, for which he held twelve certificates issued to him at various times from 1869 to 1880. He was nearly eighty years old and while in the city of New York on that day he lost these certificates. The next day he gave defendant notice of the loss and stopped transfer of them. Nothing has ever been heard of them…
1Opinion of the CourtMitchell, J.
This action was brought to have the plaintiff adjudged the owner of certain shares of the stock of the defendant company, and to compel the company to issue to him new certificates therefor in place of the originals, which are alleged to have been lost, and, if the defendant refuses to issue the same, that plaintiff have judgment against it for the value of the stock.
*339It is not questioned but that one Asa Guilford, plaintiff’s father, now deceased, was once the owner of the stock, and that plaintiff, a citizen of this state, is his assignee, sole heir, or next of kin, as well as the…
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