Tampa Water Works Company v. Walter Wood

ELLIS, J. -- R. D. Wood & Company, a copartnership composed of Walter Wood and Stuart Wood, owned shares of the capital stock of the Tampa Water Works Company, a Florida Corporation. In March, 1914, Stuart Wood died and in 1920 the affairs of the copartnership being managed by Walter Wood as survivor, were placed in the hands of a receiver who transferred the stock in the Tampa Water Works Company to Walter Wood.