Fisher, Parker & Co. v. Jones
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Oban eery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 18th November, 1885, by the appellants, a mercantile partnership doing business in the city of St. Louis, against the City Railroad Company of Mobile, a private corporation, Winston Jones, as assignee of the Bank of Mobile, and Bernard Moog ; and sought to compel said railroad company to recognize the rights of the complainants as owners of two…
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Appeal from the Oban eery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon. John A. Foster. The original bill in this case was filed on the 18th November, 1885, by the appellants, a mercantile partnership doing business in the city of St. Louis, against the City Railroad Company of Mobile, a private corporation, Winston Jones, as assignee of the Bank of Mobile, and Bernard Moog ; and sought to compel said railroad company to recognize the rights of the complainants as owners of two certificates of stock, which had been issued originally to said B. Moog, to make the proper entries of transfer on the…
1Opinion of the CourtSomeeyille, J.
— The subject of controversy in this ca-e is one hundred shares of the capital stock of an incorporated street railroad company in the city of Mobile, standing on the books of the company in the name of one B. Moog, as owner. The controversy arises between the conflicting claims of the appellants, as attaching creditors and purchasers under execution sale made in due course of the attachment proceedings, on the one hand, and of the appellee, Jones, on the other, as prior transferree of the stock taken as collateral' security for money loaned.
Many questions arise in the cause, and were…
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