Coleman v. Spencer

Trial of the right of property in certain bank stock. In July, 1836, one APMachen became the subscriber for seventeen shares of stock in the branch bank at Fort-Wayne. The first instalment of the sum to be paid for the stock became payable on the 31st of October next thereafter, amounting-to 318 dollars. MMachen, being unable on that day to make the payment himself, executed an instrument in writing whereby he certified that he" surrendered the seventeen shares of stock so by him subscribed for to Spencer, the defendant in error. On the same day, but whether before or after the execution of…