Forrester v. Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper & Silver Mining Co.
Montana Supreme Court
Appeal from District Court, Silver Dow County; William Clancy, Judge. Action by Janies Forrester and another against the Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company and others for injunction. From an order granting an injunction pendente lite, defendants appeal. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion.
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Appeal from District Court, Silver Dow County; William Clancy, Judge. Action by Janies Forrester and another against the Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company and others for injunction. From an order granting an injunction pendente lite, defendants appeal. Statement of the case by the justice delivering the opinion. Appeal by defendants from an order granting a temporary injunction restraining them from voting, or allowing to be voted, any of the capital stock of the Boston & Montana Consolidated Copper and Silver Mining Company, of Montana, in favor of disposing of…
1Opinion of the CourtPigott, J.
— We shall discuss briefly such of the points made by the defendants as seem worthy of serious attention.
1. Defendants argue that the failure of plaintiffs to state and prove that they have exhausted their remedies within the corporation is fatal to the maintenance of the action. The point is without merit. Sufficient appears to show, with reasonable certainty, that plaintiffs could not hope to obtain within the corporation itself redress of their alleged grievances. The board of directors had not only executed a deed in the company’s name to all its property, but had also procured the…
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