Nutting v. Thomason

Warner, Chief Justice.

The complainants filed their bill against the defendants to recover forty shares of stock in the Southwestern Railroad Company, which had been sold by the administrator of Wakeman at private sale. On the trial of the case, as it appears from the evidence in the record, it was proved that, on the 28th December, 1865, Usher, the administrator of Wake-man, sold and transferred to Nutting twenty-five shares of the stock at private sale; that on the 21st of March, 1866, Usher, the administrator, sold and transferred to Cubbedge, Caldwell & Company fifteen shares of the stock…