Butler v. M. Ins.
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Mobile Chancery District. Before the Hon. A. Crenshaw, Chancellor. The bill was filed by the plaintiff in error, to recover of the Insurance company, fifty shares of its stock, and the accruing dividends, upon the allegations, that in January, 1834, Joshua B. Leavens, the father of complainant, subscribed and paid for fifty shares of the stock of the company, in her name, intending at the time, to make her an advancement; and that afterwards, the company…
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Appeal from the Mobile Chancery District. Before the Hon. A. Crenshaw, Chancellor. The bill was filed by the plaintiff in error, to recover of the Insurance company, fifty shares of its stock, and the accruing dividends, upon the allegations, that in January, 1834, Joshua B. Leavens, the father of complainant, subscribed and paid for fifty shares of the stock of the company, in her name, intending at the time, to make her an advancement; and that afterwards, the company permitted her guardian, after her father’s death, fraudulently to convey them to one Samuel St. John, the company knowing…
1Opinion of the CourtChilton, J.
The plaintiff, who is the wife of Thomas J. Butler, and daughter of the late Joshua B. Leavens, filed her bill in chancery against the appellees, alledging that in January, 1834, her father, being a man of large fortune, which greatly exceeded his debts and liabilities, &c. bought in her name and paid for the same, fifty shares of the capital stock of the Merchants’ Insurance Company of the city of Mobile, which company had been duly incorporated by an act of the legislature of the State of Alabama. That the certificate of stock was duly issued for said fifty shares to complainant, and the…
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