Tennessee Supreme Court April 15, 1872 (Memphis Appeal Publishing Co. v. Pike)

Nicholson, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

This was an application by Albert Pike before a Circuit Judge, in the first Circuit Court of Shelby county, for the writ of mandamus, to compel the Memphis Appeal Publishing Company to transfer to • him on its books the stock formerly owned by J. M. Keating.