Klein v. Farmer

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree quieting the plaintiff’s title to corporate stock.

The decedent, William Otto Emerson, died intestate on December 24, 1940, at the age of 85 years. Shortly thereafter the appellant caused to be transferred from decedent’s name into her own and reissued to herself certificates evidencing the ownership of 12 shares of American Telephone and Telegraph Company and 400 shares of Pacific Gas and Electric Company stock which he had assigned on the back thereof to her. A few days after decedent’s death the appellant placed on record a deed made on the 7th,…