Mullen v. Mullen

FOLTA, District Judge.

Plaintiff seeks to recover 100 shares of stock of the defendant bank, 178 shares of stock of the B. M. Behrends Co., and a deed to certain lands in California which he alleges are wrongfully withheld by the defendant Mullen; or damages for conversion thereof and of the dividends and income therefrom, or an accounting. The controversy was held to be equitable in nature, D.C., 14 F.R.D. 142, and dealt with accordingly.

The plaintiff is the son of the defendant Mullen. He contends that the stock and the interest in the land were given him by his mother and that his title…