Stratton Massachusetts Gold Mines Co. v. Davis

This action of tort is brought in the name of a Colorado corporation to recover damages for alleged wrongful acts, hereinafter stated. In at least three of the six counts the defendants are described as de facto directors or officers. At the date of the writ all but one of the original twenty-four were in fact *550stockholders, and that one had been counsel for the plaintiff in the earlier action against Nathaniel A. Stratton. Answers in abatement were duly filed by most of the defendants, setting up (among other matters) that “this action is brought without the authority, direction or consent of…