Hoosier Chemical Works, Inc. v. Brown

The appellee brought this suit against the Hoosier Chemical Works, Incorporated, and the officers of that corporation, to mandate them to accept the surrender of a certificate of stock issued to Charles A. Bruns and assigned to him; to transfer said stock and issue a new certificate to him for nineteen shares of the stock of the corporation; and to permit him to have and exercise all of the rights of a stockholder of the company. The plaintiff was one of the incorporators of the Hoosier Chemical Works, and a certificate was issued to him for twenty shares of its capital stock. He transferred…