Sievers v. Sievers

This mandamus action is a contest to determine ownership of certificate No. 252, representing one hundred shares of capital stock of a national bank. The action was instituted to compel First National Bank of Everett and Adele Sievers, as an individual and as executrix both of the estate of her deceased husband, Ed Sievers, and of the estate of her deceased mother, Clara Haase Paulsen, to invest plaintiff with indicium of title to one hundred shares of the capital stock of defendant bank.

Adele Sievers pleaded in bar that, for more than ten years prior to the commencement of this action, she…