Peck v. Noee

This is an appeal from the judgment upon the judgment-roll alone. The action is by the plaintiff for himself and as assignee of twenty-seven other persons against the appellants as stockholders of the Hathaway Mill & Lumber Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the state of Nevada and doing business in California, to enforce their alleged liability, as such stockholders, to the plaintiff as a creditor of the corporation. The only question presented for consideration on the merits of the case is whether or not the stockholders of a corporation organized in Nevada are individually…