Meinershagen v. Taylor

The petition alleges that on May 26, 1907, plaintiff purchased of defendants ten shares of the capital stock of the Taylor-Woodruff Dry Goods Company of the par value of $100 per share and paid $1000 to defendants for the same; that defendants failed and refused to deliver said stock but instead sent plaintiff, through the,mails, a certificate for ten shares of the capital stock of the Swofford Brothers Dry Goods Company, of the par value of $100 per share; that plaintiff refused to accept the stock thus delivered and tendered it back to defendants and demanded a return of the purchase price,…