Smith v. Meeker
Supreme Court of Iowa
Appeal from Marshall District Court. — Hon. C. B. Bradshaw, Judge. Action in replevin for tbe recovery of possession of certain shares of corporate stock alleged to be the property of plaintiff. The case was tried by consent without a jury,, and judgment was rendered for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcClain, C. J.
In January, 1908, Peter E. Smith, who was living with his son, the plaintiff in this ease, was the owner of two hundred and five shares of the corporate stock of the National Grocer Company, a corporation hav-. ing its principal place of business, in Detroit, Mich.; each of such shares being of the par value of $100. There was testimony tending to show that about that time the father took the certificates representing this stock from a box in which he was in the habit of keeping his private papers in his own room at his son’s house, and handed them to his son, with the statement that the son…
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