Krouse v. Woodward

This action was brought to recover from appellant twenty shares of stock in the defendant corporation. Plaintiff avers ownership of the stock on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1893, represented by certificate No. 7, then issued to him, and that he still owns the same; that the stock is of uncertain value; that the stock of said company has no known or fixed market value, and that plaintiff purchased said stock with a view of retaining the same for purposes of profit, investment, and speculation; that he became indebted to Woodward in the sum of four hundred dollars, for which sum Woodward…