59 Ga. App. 311 | Ga. Ct. App. | 1938
(After stating the foregoing facts.) It appears from the evidence, and the receipt which was offered in evidence but which was rejected, that Tom Noras delivered to American Bond & Share Corporation, through its agent, E. H. Steele) to be sold by the corporation as his attorney in fact for Noras’s benefit and account, in open market or by private sale, fifty shares of Georgia Power Company stock belonging to him “at $59 per share or better,” and that the full amount to be realized from the sale should be paid to him. It appears that when Noras delivered the stock he signed a transfer on the back of the certificate and left the name of the transferee blank. It appears that American Bond & Share Corporation afterwards engaged Fenner & Beane as its brokers, to sell the fifty shares of stock referred to; that the stock was delivered to Fenner & Beane who inserted in the transfer the names of Fenner & Beane, as transferees, and sold on the New York Curb Exchange 25 shares of the stock at $58 per share, and 25 shares at $57-yg per share. It does not appear what became of the proceeds of these sales.
A written transfer or assignment of a certificate of stock, made on the back thereof, with a delivery of the stock to the transferee, is sufficient to pass to him title to the stock. Georgia Casualty Co. v. McRitchie, 45 Ga. App. 697 (166 S. E. 49). It appears from
Where personal property has been by its owner delivered to his agent with power of attorney in the agent to sell it and convey title, and a limitation on the terms of sale is placed on the agent, and the agent sells the property, in violation of these terms, neither he nor his sub-agent, who sells the property for him, is guilty of a conversion of the property. Title and right to possession pass out of the owner. líe can not recover in trover because in a suit in trover the plaintiif can recover only upon proof of title to the property or right of possession in himself. Palmour v. Durham Fertilizer Co., 97 Ga. 244 (22 S. E. 931); Hall v. Simmons, 125 Ga. 801 (54 S. E. 751); Prater v. Painter, 6 Ga. App. 292 (64 S, E. 1003); Dunlap-Huckabee Auto Co. v. Central Georgia Automotive Co., 31 Ga. App. 617 (122 S. E. 69); Georgia Casualty Co. v. McRitchie, 45 Ga. App. 697, 703 (166 S. E. 49); Savannah Bank & Trust Co. v. Groover, 56 Ga. App. 27 (192 S. E. 49); McNeil v. Tenth National Bank, 46 N. Y. 325 (7 Am. R. 341).
In Knight v. Metts, 27 Ga. App. 657 (109 S. E. 521), and Turner v. Williams, 29 Ga. App. 752 (116 S. E. 553), the transferee of corporate stock, which was transferred for a limited purpose, applied the stock to a purpose other than that to which it was re
Considering all the evidence adduced, together Avith the “receipt” containing the limitation as to a minimum-sale price upon the poAvor of the transferee to sell the stock, there appears no conversion of the stock by the defendants, or title to the property in the plaintiff. Had the court admitted in evidence the receipt, a nonsuit Avould have been proper. The court therefore did not err in awarding a nonsuit. It is immaterial Avhether the court erred in rejecting the receipt from eAndence.
Judgment affirmed.