Anderson v. Byrnes

In plaintiff’s original brief he says: “This is an action qui tam by a stockholder (a common informer) to recover the statutory penalty from the directors of a domestic mining corporation for failure to make or post monthly balance sheets, et cetera, required by act approved April 23, 1880.” By that statute it is declared that a stockholder may recover the sum of one thousand dollars as liquidated damages from the directors of mining corporations for failure upon their part to comply with certain of its provisions. Subsequent to the filing of plaintiff’s original brief, and while the appeal…