Hudson v. Western Oil Fields, Inc.

Plaintiff in error was plaintiff in the trial court and will be referred to by name. Defendant in error will be referred to as “Western.”

Hudson brought suit in the district court for damages resulting from Western’s failure to deliver to him certain shares of stock decreed to him under an assignment from one Floyd F. Rathbun, hereafter called Rathbun. Material allegations of the complaint were that an arbitration award stemming from a dispute between Rathbun and Western had been reduced to judgment in the district court under which Rathbun became entitled to 100,000 shares of Western common…