Mitchell v. Mitchell, Woodbury Co.

The plaintiff, as the holder of a certificate purporting to represent three hundred and ninety-one shares of the preferred stock of the defendant corporation, brings this bill praying for the cancellation of the certificate and of her offer to exchange common for preferred stock and for the payment of money. The principal grounds on which she seeks relief are fraud of the individual defendants and the issuance to her of a void certificate of stocfi. From a decree dismissing the bill the plaintiff appealed.

The plaintiff’s husband, Jacob Mitchell, died in 1922. He owned, with the defendants…