Shipman v. Ætna Insurance
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in equity, brought by the petitioner as trustee of the assigned estate of John W. Seymour, to obtain the legal title to eighty-three shares of the stock of the .¿Etna Insurance Company, standing on the books of the company in the name of Seymour. Seymour had absconded, and the certificates of the stock were either carried away by him orwere lost.
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Bill in equity, brought by the petitioner as trustee of the assigned estate of John W. Seymour, to obtain the legal title to eighty-three shares of the stock of the .¿Etna Insurance Company, standing on the books of the company in the name of Seymour. Seymour had absconded, and the certificates of the stock were either carried away by him orwere lost. Eliphalet A. Bulkeley claimed an equitable title to fi fteen shares of the stock Benjamin W. Greene to thirty shares, and Mark Howard to fifteen shares; and Bulkeley, Greene and Howard were made respondents, with' the .¿Etna Insurance Company,…
1Opinion of the CourtSanford, J.
This is a bill in equity brought by the trustee of the estate of John W. Seymour, an insolvent debtor, to procure the transfer by the .¿Etna Insurance Company to the petitioner, of eighty-three shares of the capital stock of that company, now standing in the name of Seymour, in order that it may be disposed of for the benefit of Seymour’s creditors.
That the petitioner is the duly appointed trustee of the insolvent’s estate is not denied, but the insurance company refuses to make the transfer, because the petitioner, not being possessed of the stock certificates, can not surrender them to the…
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