Diamond State Iron Co. v. Todd
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Bill of interpleader.—This suit was brought to determine by interpleader between George W. Todd and Jethro T. McCullough, which of them is entitled to 105 shares of the capital stock of the Diamond State Iron Company, the complainant, standing upon the books of the. company as the property of the defendant McCullough, and to certain dividends thereon (and interest upon a part of the dividends) that have accrued since January, 1881. This stock was on January 10, 1882, pledged…
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Bill of interpleader.—This suit was brought to determine by interpleader between George W. Todd and Jethro T. McCullough, which of them is entitled to 105 shares of the capital stock of the Diamond State Iron Company, the complainant, standing upon the books of the. company as the property of the defendant McCullough, and to certain dividends thereon (and interest upon a part of the dividends) that have accrued since January, 1881. This stock was on January 10, 1882, pledged by McCullough to the defendant Darlington, to secure the payment of a promissory note for $5,000 then loaned by…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The complainant in this suit, a. corporation existing under the laws of this State, states that there stand in the name of Jethro T. McCullough, one of the defendants in this cause, 105 shares of the-capital stock of said company which were transferred to-*175the said defendant on the 28th day of December, A. D. 1878, by George C, Simpson, executor of Jethro T. McCullough, deceased. That in the latter part of the year-1881, the president of the said corporation complainant was notified by the defendant George W. Todd that he had become purchaser of said stock, then and theretofore…
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