Hazard v. National Exchange Bank of Newport

This is an action at lhwto recover damages for the refusal of the defendant to transfer to the plaintiff 75 shares of their capital stock, and to issue to him a certificate thereof. The ease has been heard by the court without a jury. The material facts are that on the thirtieth day of December, 1875, the shares stood in the name of Rowland R. Hazard, Jr., and on that day he sold them to the plaintiff, and assigned them by a transfer written on the back of the certificate; that on the twenty-sixth day of June, 1877, the shares,were attached in a suit brought in the supreme court of Rhode…