O'Herron v. Gray
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Two BILLS IN EQUITY, filed November 21, 1894, to compel the defendants to transfer and deliver to the plaintiffs certain certificates of the capital stock of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company.
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Two BILLS IN EQUITY, filed November 21, 1894, to compel the defendants to transfer and deliver to the plaintiffs certain certificates of the capital stock of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company. The cases were heard in this court on an agreed statement of facts, the material portions of which appear in the opinion, and a decree was entered in favor of each plaintiff, requiring the defendants to transfer and deliver to them a certificate for thirty-one and twelve shares, respectively, of the capital stock of the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, and to pay to them the amount of the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
Each of the plaintiffs is the owner of stock in the Boston and Albany Railroad Company, represented by certificates in the possession of Gray, Dewey, and Company, the defendants. The plaintiff in the first case owned two certificates,— one for nineteen shares, and one for twelve shares, — both of which passed into the hands of the defendants, and were surrendered by them in exchange for a new certificate for thirty-one shares, issued in their own names. The plaintiff in the second case is the owner of one certificate for twelve shares, which the defendants received, and which has not been…
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