Livingston v. Gamble-Robinson Commission Co.

Citations

• 73 Wash. 268
• 131 P. 818
• 1913 Wash. LEXIS 1590

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Stock — Ownership — Sales — Evidence — Suhbtciency. In an action to recover tlie possession of corporate stock, held by the sheriff under attachment as the property of S., the evidence is insufficient to support plaintiff’s claim of title by purchase from S., where it appears from her testimony that she paid for the stock in bills, received from time to time by mail from her father, during several months, and kept on her person until she had accumulated $2,300, her memory was very faulty and her story improbable, and it appears that she and S. sustained confidential relations to one another, that the stock was held as collateral for the note of S., who sought its release, refusing all cash offers, and finally traded in some real estate, causing the stock to be transferred to plaintiff, whereupon they both left the state, there being many other sidelights on the story giving it the appearance of untruth.</p>