Miller v. Great Republic Insurance

The plaintiffs, after issuing an execution on a judgment obtained by them against the Great Republic Insurance Company, and finding no property of the company whereon to levy, filed a motion in the Circuit Court against the defendant Manion, asking for an execution against him as stockholder.

The facts show that Manion was one of the original stockholders to the amount of twenty shares of stock, but, more than, a year before the issue of the execution against the company, had sold and transferred his stock to one Whitesides, who afterwards turned out to be insolvent. The transfer was…