52 Vt. 66 | Vt. | 1879
The opinion of the court was delivered by
The contention is in regard to two hundred and fifty shares of the stock of the Central Vermont Railroad Company, formerly the property of John Q. Hoyt. The orator claims the same by purchase, and the defendant Meyer by attachment, Drew being the officer who made the» attachment, and who holds the execution in favor of Meyer against Hoyt, with directions to levy it on the stock in question. The corporation being located in this State, the rights of the parties to its stock, when brought in question by an attachment under the laws of this State, must be deter
The defendant claims that the court should go farther and hold that stocks which are so much dealt in by brokers and in the money markets, often distant from the office where the record is required to be kept, are subject to the rule which the court enunciated in regard to real estate, where the title is held in trust — in Hackett v. Collender, 32 Vt. 97 ; Hart v. Farmers & Mechanics’ Bank, 33 Vt. 252 — that a creditor by attachment acquires only such right and property therein as his debtor has when the attachment is made. But we have no occasion for such holding in this case.
Decree affirmed, and cause remanded.