Hayden v. Charter Oak Driving Park
Supreme Court of Connecticut
ACTION to compel the defendant corporation to issue to the plaintiff a certificate for certain shares of its stock, and for damages for the refusal to issue the same; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and heard before Prentice, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff.
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ACTION to compel the defendant corporation to issue to the plaintiff a certificate for certain shares of its stock, and for damages for the refusal to issue the same; brought to the Superior Court in Hartford County, and heard before Prentice, J. Facts found and judgment rendered for the defendant, and appeal by the plaintiff. I. The plaintiff was a bond fide purchaser for value of a certificate of stock regularly issued by the officers of the defendant, and to dispute the representation of which no step has ever been taken by the defendant, although the defendant well knew that the…
1Opinion of the CourtTokrANCE, J.
The plaintiff brings this action to compel the defendant company to issue and deliver to him a certificate for eighteen shares of its capital stock, or to recover damages for tbe value of such shares. The facts upon which be bases bis claim are in substance the following :—
From about the time of the organization of the defendant corporation in 1873, one Harbison, under whom the plaintiff claims, was its secretary, down to March, 1878. He was then chosen president of the corporation, which office he held continuously till March, 1882, when his official relations with the defendant ended. In…
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