St. Romes v. Levee Steam Cotton Press Co.

This is a suit in equity instituted in the court below on the 9th of December, 1882, by the appellant, as heir of her mother and brothers, against the appellee, to compel the latter to issue to the appellant a certificate for sixty-six shares of its capital stock, which áre charged to have been unlawfully cancelled and transferred to other parties without authority; and to recover the dividends on said stock since the year 1858. The bill states that in 1845 the complainant’s mother, widow de St. Eomes, became the owner of said sixty-six shares of stock, and received two certificates therefor,…