Dale v. City Plumbing & Heating Supply Co.

Dken, Judge.

This court held in Short v. McKinney, 111 Ga. App. 557 (142 SE2d 398) that a corporate stockholder may not, without joining the corporation as a party plaintiff or defendant, sue to recover the value of his shares of stock in the corporation because some act of the defendant has damaged the corporation and thereby reduced the value of the stock. This is not that kind of suit. The plaintiff here alleged a direct, wilful and malicious injury to himself by way of loss of earnings because of his refusal, individually and as the alter ego of a corporation bearing his name and under his…