State ex rel. Wood v. Davis-Wood Lumber Co.

LOTTINGER, Judge.

This is a mandamus proceeding, initiated by relators, wherein they seek to cause the defendant to transfer to them 290 shares of the capital stock of the .defendant corporation standing in the name of relators’ husband and father, respectively, Robert M. Wood, Sr. The lower court rendered judgment in favor of relators and ordered the stock transferred into their names. The defendant has taken this appeal.

The record discloses that Mrs. Winnie Davis Wood, the widow and surviving spouse in community of Robert M. Wood, Sr., and, her five children filed this suit seeking to…