Cook Railway Signal Co. v. Buck

The action was in mandamus by Euphemia N. Buck, defendant in error, against the Cook Railway Signal Company and others, plaintiffs in error, to compel the transfer on the books of the company, and the issuance to her, of certain of its capital stock, which she claimed to have bought of her husband, and which he had assigned to her. An alternative writ issued which was made peremptory, and the company brings the case here for review. •

By answer the defendant put in issue practically every averment of the petition and writ, the averments relating to a demand for the issuance of the stock and…