Hart v. Hart

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Rees

Affirming.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Jefferson circuit court adjudging the appellee to be the owner of 14 shares of stock of the Avery'Building Association which she purchased in 1919 and had issued in appellant’s name. The appellant, Joseph Allen Hart, is the nephew of the appellee, Hattie E. Hart.

In 1919 appellee owned 50 shares of the paid-up stock of the Avery Building Association, a Kentucky corporation. The by-laws of the association limited the amount of stock that one person could own to 50 shares. Mrs. Hart decided to purchase additional…