Bailey v. Pierce

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.;

This was a proceeding in mandamus to compel the defendants, president and secretary of a corporation, to transfer certain stock on the books of their company.

*360The circumstances were these: Deering J. Marshall and D. M. Hennessey were indebted to the plaintiff, D. A. Bailey. He sued them in the city court of Wichita and recovered judgment for $153. Marshall and Hennessey, the judgment debtors, owned seven hundred shares of stock in the Beacon Oil Company which they had deposited with Harry Pierce as pledgee to secure the payment of some eight…