Jackins

This appeal is from a judgment in favor of the plaintiff and against the defendants herein in an action for conversion by said defendant Bacon of certain stock of the Queen Oil Company, a corporation, of which the plaintiff alleged herself to have been the owner at the time of such conversion. The undisputed evidence in the case showed that on and prior to August 31, 1918, one Harry Jackins, the husband of the plaintiff and respondent herein, appeared on the books of the Queen Oil Company as being the owner of forty thousand shares of the capital stock of said corporation, as evidenced by certificates numbers 46 and 47. On said August 31, 1918, the sheriff of Los Angeles County, acting under and by virtue of an execution, issued in a certain action against said Harry Jackins and others, sold said forty thousand shares of the capital stock of said corporation to Frank P. Bacon, the defendant and appellant herein, and on September 4, 1918, pursuant to said sale, issued to said Bacon a certificate of sale of said stock. Thereupon, and upon said last-named date, said Bacon presented to the Queen Oil Company said certificate of sale demanding that there be issued to him by virtue…