State ex rel. Pope v. Bunkie Coca Cola Bottling Co.

PONDER, Justice.

Mrs. Ethel Pope, individually and as natural tutrix, brought mandamus proceedings against the Bunkie Coca Cola Bottling Company, Inc., seeking to have 151 shares of stock, standing in the name of George B. Pope, transferred on the books of the corporation to her and her minor children as widow and heirs of George B. Pope, deceased. The respondent corporation opposed the suit on the ground that 150 shares of the stock were the separate property of George B. Pope and are now owned by the minor children and that the remaining one share of stock is the property of Mrs. Clarence J.…