Manton v. Ray

This is a bill for the specific performance of a contract to convey twenty-five shares of the capital stock of the Home Investment Company, a corporation, in exchange for stock owned by complainant in another corporation. The bill sets out that the complainant, prior to June 26, 1893, delivered certificates of the shares he was to convey, duly issued by the corporation and transí erred in blank, to one Goff, a broker, with instructions to deliver the same to Ray in exchange for the shares he was to receive pursuant to the contract; that on June 26 the respondent met the complainant at Goffs…