Krouse

This action was brought to recover from appellant twenty shares of stock in the defendant corporation. Plaintiff avers ownership of the stock on the twenty-fifth day of August, 1893, represented by certificate No. 7, then issued to him, and that he still owns the same; that the stock is of uncertain value; that the stock of said company has no known or fixed market value, and that plaintiff purchased said stock with a view of retaining the same for purposes of profit, investment, and speculation; that he became indebted to Woodward in the sum of four hundred dollars, for which sum Woodward held his promissory note; that he delivered to said Woodward said certificate as a pledge to secure the payment of said note; that afterward, on January 9, 1894, the note being due, he tendered to Woodward the amount due on said note, and demanded the return of the stock and of said note, both of which demands Woodward refused to comply with; that seven days afterward Woodward pretended to sell said stock to defendant Alexander. Said pretended sale was without consideration, and was made to deprive plaintiff of his stock; that Alexander had full knowledge of plaintiff’s rights, and that the…