Ireland v. Globe Milling & Reduction Co.

The pleadings in this case present two questions for our decision, namely, first, is the stock of a non-resident, in a foreign corporation, doing business in this State, attachable here ; and, second, are the by-laws of the defendant corporation set up in its third special plea in bar, taken in connection with the statutes of the State of Maine relating to the transfer of stock in corporations, which are also pleaded, effectual to prevent William E. Stearns, the assignor of the stock in question, from transferring the same to the plaintiff by a mere indorsement and delivery thereof, so as to…