State ex rel. Thatcher v. Horner

This is an application for a writ of mandamus to compel the respondent, who is a judge of the circuit court of the city St. Louis, to compel the officers of a corporation to perform a decree previously rendered by the said court, requiring them to transfer on the books of the corporation certain shares of stock to the relator and to issue to him a certificate therefor. The question for decision arises upon a demurrer to the petition. The petition recites the making of the decree, the service of a copy of it upon Edward P. Barrett, president, and William C. Jones, secretary of the corporation,…