Dunscomb v. Chicago, B. & Q. R.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Bill by George Hoyles Dunscomb against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. The material facts appear by stipulation. June 34, 1870, George Hoyles Dunscomb of the Province of Ontario, Canada, married Harriet C. Gore. Appellant, born May 31, 1871, is the only issue of the marriage.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Bill by George Hoyles Dunscomb against the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals. The material facts appear by stipulation. June 34, 1870, George Hoyles Dunscomb of the Province of Ontario, Canada, married Harriet C. Gore. Appellant, born May 31, 1871, is the only issue of the marriage. The father died March. 21, 1871, leaving a will dated December 14, 1870, in which he. bequeathed to his wife 100 shares of stock in…
1Opinion of the CourtAeschuler, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Three questions are in the main presented: (1) Does liability attach to appellee by reason of the action of the National Bank of Commerce of New York, its transfer agent, in accepting trustee Muirhéid’s cancellation and surrender of the stock certificates, and issuing new ones to Muirheid’s transferees, involving primarily the question of the right of Muirheid as trustee to dispose of the stock ? (2) Is appellant bound by the outcome of the litigation in the New York courts in the suit brought there by the Toronto General Trusts Company against appellee and…
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