Crosby v. Simpson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 23, 1909, and afterwards amended, against Greenlief W. Simpson and Louville V. Niles, to compel the return to the plaintiff of shares of the capital stock of the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company, a certificate representing which the plaintiff lent to Simpson and Simpson pledged to Niles, who received it with notice of Simpson’s limited authority to transfer and delivered it to the corporation, but demanded and received a…
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Bill in equity, filed in the Superior Court on February 23, 1909, and afterwards amended, against Greenlief W. Simpson and Louville V. Niles, to compel the return to the plaintiff of shares of the capital stock of the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company, a certificate representing which the plaintiff lent to Simpson and Simpson pledged to Niles, who received it with notice of Simpson’s limited authority to transfer and delivered it to the corporation, but demanded and received a new certificate in his own name. The bill also sought a delivery to the plaintiff of new shares issued as a stock…
1Opinion of the CourtBraley, J.
The plaintiff by the amended bill seeks to recover seventy-seven shares of the capital stock of the Fort Worth Stock Yards Company as well as nineteen and one quarter shares, which were issued as a stock dividend upon the seventy-seven shares, and dividends in cash which have been declared and received upon all the stock. A final decree granting relief in damages has been entered against the defendant Simpson from which he has not appealed. But, the decree having confirmed the alleged transfer to the defendant Niles of the stock and his right, to retain the dividends, the plaintiff appeals,…
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