Spooner v. Phillips
Supreme Court of Connecticut
New Haven & Fairfield Cos., April T., 1892. Andrews, C. J., Carpenter, Seymour, Torrance and Fenn, Js. Suit for recovery in equity of sixty-six shares of stock of the Adams Express Company, held by the defendant Phillips as trustee; brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County.
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New Haven & Fairfield Cos., April T., 1892. Andrews, C. J., Carpenter, Seymour, Torrance and Fenn, Js. Suit for recovery in equity of sixty-six shares of stock of the Adams Express Company, held by the defendant Phillips as trustee; brought to the Superior Court in Fair-field County. The defendant Henry R. Parrott, administrator of the estate of Mary Ann Garland, the original beneficiary for her life under the trust, filed an answer and counterclaim, setting up a claim in behalf of her estate to fifty-six shares of the stock, and the court ordered an inter-pleader between the plaintiff and…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
The plaintiff in 1857 transferred to Daniel Phillips, in trust for the use of Mary Ann Garland for life, or until she should marry, ten shares of the stock of the Adams Express Company, a joint stock association organized under the laws of the state of New York, by an instrument in writing, as follows:
“Know all men by these presents that I, Clapp Spooner, of the city of Bridgeport, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, for value received, have bargained, sold, assigned and transferred, and by these presents do bargain, sell, assign and transfer, unto Daniel Phillips, of Hartford, ten shares of…
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