Nettles v. Tillson

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

In the District Court the verdict was directed for the defendant because the plaintiff failed to prove his case. Nettles, as receiver for the Peoples State Bank of South Carolina, had sued Marie A. Till-son, as executrix of Elizabeth B. McCarter, to recover $3,300 as the double liability of the deceased on 330 shares of stock in the failed bank. She denied the allegation of the declaration that the deceased at the time of her death was the holder of 330 shares of its stock. The only evidence offered was a stub in a book claimed to be the Bank’s stock certificate book…