Leete v. State Bank of St. Louis
Supreme Court of Missouri
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. The plaintiff by this equitable proceeding, instituted January 15, 1889, sought to compel the defendant bank to transfer to her fifteen shares of its stock then standing on its books in the name of her husband, James M. Leete, defendant, and also to account to her for dividends declared thereon, alleging that such shares were purchased by defendant James M. Leete with money which came to her by the…
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court. — Hon. L. B. Yalliant, Judge. The plaintiff by this equitable proceeding, instituted January 15, 1889, sought to compel the defendant bank to transfer to her fifteen shares of its stock then standing on its books in the name of her husband, James M. Leete, defendant, and also to account to her for dividends declared thereon, alleging that such shares were purchased by defendant James M. Leete with money which came to her by the bequest of her father in July, 1876 and January, 1877, and that with some of the money thus bequeathed to her her said…
1Opinion of the CourtSherwood, J.
The death of the testator Harrison, the father of plaintiff, occurring in 1870, her marriage with Leete in 1871 and the reception by the husband of certain sums of money from the executor of the will in 1876 and in 1877, with a portion of which money in the latter year he bought in his own name the stock in controversy, brings into prominence the act of March 25, 1875, p. 61, now section 3296, Revised Statutes, 1879, which is so far as necessary to quote- as follows': “Any personal property including rights in action belonging to any woman at her marriage or which may have come to her during…
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