Thurber v. Crump
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 57 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The certificates of stock being in the actual possession of Wilson and in hispíame, Thurber was justified in dealing with him as the true owner, and got good title by his purchase thereof; and upon so obtaining them, had the right to demand their transfer to him on the corporation books. 2. Even conceding that Crump had a contract with Wilson by which Crump was to be the one-half owner with Wilson of the…
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Case 57 — PETITION EQUITY APPEAL FROM LOUISVILLE CHANCERY COURT. 1. The certificates of stock being in the actual possession of Wilson and in hispíame, Thurber was justified in dealing with him as the true owner, and got good title by his purchase thereof; and upon so obtaining them, had the right to demand their transfer to him on the corporation books. 2. Even conceding that Crump had a contract with Wilson by which Crump was to be the one-half owner with Wilson of the stock in the corporation obtained by Wilson; still Crump having, with full knowledge of the issue of the stock to "Wilson,…
1Opinion of the Court
JUDGE BENNETT
delivered the opinion op the court.
The appellee, on the twenty-sixth day of November, 1880, filed his petition in the Louisville Chancery Court against James Wilson and the Southern Dairy Company. In his petition he alleged, in substance, that he made a verbal contract with James Wilson, by which he agreed to assist him, Wilson, in selling the right to manufacture, in the States of Kentucky and Indiana, animal fats for the purposes of food in the form of butter, etc. That the right to manufacture animal fats, etc., in these two States was secured by patent, which patent Wilson…
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