Boyle v. Superior Court
California Supreme Court
APPLICATION for a Writ of Mandate directed to the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and to F. J. Murasky, Judge thereof. . The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Certain stockholders of the Western Magnesite Development Company, a corporation, appealed to equity, charging fraud, dereliction of duty, and violation of trust against two of the directors of the corporation, and prayed for a removal of these directors and for an appointment of a receiver to take possession and charge of the assets and property of the corporation. It was alleged that the Western Magnesite Development Company was a mining corporation owning magnesite claims of large value; that dissension had arisen in the board of directors, which board consisted of but four persons, of…
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