Southern Car Manufacturing & Supply Co. v. Wagner
New Mexico Supreme Court
Appeal -from the District Court for Chaves county, before Edward A. Mann, Associate Justice. In a suit by a corporation against a party not a stockholder therein, for alleged conversion of property, any evidence as to the ownership of the shares of said corporation is immaterial and irrelevant to any issue in the case..
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Appeal -from the District Court for Chaves county, before Edward A. Mann, Associate Justice. In a suit by a corporation against a party not a stockholder therein, for alleged conversion of property, any evidence as to the ownership of the shares of said corporation is immaterial and irrelevant to any issue in the case.. McNamee v. Eelf, 52 Miss. 426; Central Trust Co. v. Bridges, 57 Fed. 753; Merrick v. Peru Coal Co., 61 111. 472; Stratton v. Allen, 16 N. J. Eq. 229; 1st Ch. on PL I. 526. Under the pleadings in the case evidence of partnership between Wiggs and defendant was inadmissible..…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OP THE COURT.
ABBOTT, J.
The assignments of error which we consider relate to the admission of certain evidence which, it is claimed, was not admissible on the issues raised by the pleadings, and the refusal to admit certain evidence offered by the plaintiff.
1 The fourth and fifth assignments relate to evidence obtained from Wiggs on cross-examination by the defendant, that he, Wiggs, owned all but five shares of the stock of the plaintiff corporation. The record does not disclose the ground of its admission. If it was admitted for the purpose, as the plaintiff suggests, of proving that…
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