State ex rel. Plaisent v. Orleans Railroad

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Bermudez, C. J.

This is an application for a mandamus to compel the company to permit the transfer on its books of 117 shares of its stock, owned by the relator.

The company refuses to allow the transfer on the ground that part of said shares belong to a daughter of relator, Mrs. Chéron, now in France, for having inherited the same from her mother, relator’s deceased wife.

In answer to this objection the relator says that his said wife died on the 5th of March, 1876, and that he acquired 75 of those shares on the 16th of June, 1877, and the remaining 42…