State ex rel. Morris v. Fields

This suit was brought by plaintiff Morris on a bond given by defendant Fields as receiver of a milling company. It seems that after the debts of the milling company, were all paid the receiver had a surplus in his hands and which the court ordered said receiver to pay the stockholders of the milling corporation, $45 to the share. Morris claimed to own sixteen shares which had formerly belonged to certain other stockholders, but on these the receiver declined to pay the dividend because said shares were claimed by respondent *153Beynolds. Thereupon Morris instituted this action on the bond of the…