Schultz v. United Telephone Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

This was an action for conversion of twelve shares of telephone stock to which plaintiff laid claim of ownership by virtue *731of an alleged gift inter vivos from her aunt, in whose name the stock had been issued by the defendant company.

The circumstances were as follows: The late Elizabeth Schindler, of Saline county, and her husband, Henry Schindler, were married in 1898. They had no children. She was a business woman, and through her labors in operating a boarding house she accumulated some property. According to plaintiff’s evidence the…