Legal Opinion

Weber v. Bullock

Supreme Court of Colorado

Decided September 15, 1893PublishedCited by 12 opinions

Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. This suit was instituted on the 2d day of August, 1888, in the district court of Arapahoe county, to enjoin the plaintiff in error A. H. Weber, as sheriff, from selling six thousand shares of the capital stock of the Marrs Consolidated Mining-Company, theretofore attached by him as the property of George W. Middleton, and about to be sold under executions issued on judgments recovered by his coplaintiffs in error against the…

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Error to the District Court of Arapahoe County. This suit was instituted on the 2d day of August, 1888, in the district court of Arapahoe county, to enjoin the plaintiff in error A. H. Weber, as sheriff, from selling six thousand shares of the capital stock of the Marrs Consolidated Mining-Company, theretofore attached by him as the property of George W. Middleton, and about to be sold under executions issued on judgments recovered by his coplaintiffs in error against the firm of Marrs, Middleton & Hunter. These actions against the firm were commenced in the year 1888, and the attachments and…

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Goddard

The foregoing statement sufficiently discloses the material facts established by the evidence that are pertinent to the inquiry before us, or essential to the determination of the rights of the respective parties to the stock in controversy. Plaintiffs in error rely upon two grounds for a reversal of the judgment of the court below. First, that, irrespective of our statute relative to the transfer of stock by corporations, the plaintiff below was never vested with any title to the stock in question. Second, under section 269 of the General Statutes, 1883, and the pleadings and evidence, the…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Supply Ditch Co. v. ElliottSupreme Court of Colorado · 1887
  2. Conway v. JohnSupreme Court of Colorado · 1890
  3. Colt v. IvesSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1862

3Cited by12 opinions

  1. First National Bank v. HastingsColorado Court of Appeals · 1895
  2. Equitable Securities Co. v. JohnsonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1906
  3. Central Savings Bank v. SmithSupreme Court of Colorado · 1908
  4. Arfsten v. HigbySupreme Court of Colorado · 1962
  5. Farmers' Pawnee Canal Co. v. HendersonSupreme Court of Colorado · 1909

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