Walker v. Detroit Transit Railway Co.
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from tbe Superior Court of Detroit. Bill to obtain control of corporation stock. Complainant ■appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
Graves, C. J".
This appeal is brought by complainant against the dismissal of his bill. The subject of controversy is the right to twenty-five shares of stock in the defendant corporation. On the books of the company the title stands in defendant Robertson; but complainant insists that the actual ownership is with him. His equity, as his bill asserts it, entitles him to a decree that the stock is now held for his benefit, and that Robertson surrender the certificates to> the company, and that the latter thereupon cancel them and deliver in their stead to complainant regular certificates in his…
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