Yeaman v. Galveston City Co.

This suit was brought by appellants as heirs and devisees of Robert Triplett, deceased, to establish their ownership of five shares of stock in the appellee company, a corporation chartered by an act of the Congress of the republic of Texas passed on February 5, 1841, and to recover the accrued and unpaid dividends on said stock and their interest as such shareholders in the property of the corporation in event of its dissolution,- which had been voted for by the remaining stockholders.

The pleadings of plaintiffs and defendants are very lengthy, and will not be set out in this opinion. This…