Hackett v. Whitley

Appellant brought this action against the respondents to recover specific personal property, to wit: twenty shares of Puget Sound Power'& Light Co., preferred stock, of the par value of two thousand dollars, which respondents received from appellant’s decedent prior to his death. It was also alleged that, in addition to the stock itself, a dividend of $70 had accrued and was payable. There was an alternative prayer that, in case the personal property could not be recovered, judgment be granted in favor of appellant for the value of the stock and the accrued dividend in the sum of two thousand…