Carolina Telephone & Telegraph Co. v. Johnson

BRYAN, District Judge.

The district court has found the appellant negligent in registering the transfer of some of its corporate stock owned by two minors, the principal appellees, a decree for damages has accordingly gone against the appellant, and this appeal challenges the conclusion of liability reached by the trial judge.

The stock involved consists of two lots, one of 68 shares in the first cause of action, and the other of 66 shares in the second cause of action, upon which the appellees counted in their complaint.

During the whole of the period under discussion the appellant was a…