Gilbert v. Gilbert

The parties to this litigation were formerly husband and wife, and the subject-matter of the litigation is the amount of dividends for two years now due and payable on forty-five shares of the capital stock of the Arkansas Coffin Company, an Arkansas corporation.

Guy Gilbert, the plaintiff, brought this suit in the circuit court against the corporation to recover the dividends, each amounting to ten per cent, of the shares of stock, the certificates for which stood in his own name. Dividend checks had been tendered to him payable to the joint order of himself and Lillie Gilbert, but he refused…