Collins v. Consolidated Water Co.

Plaintiff sued to compel the directors of the defendant corporation to dissolve the corporation and to distribute the assets among the stockholders. The individual defendants, together with the plaintiff, made up the entire list of stockholders. The corporation and those defendants constituting the board of directors (who also represented the majority of the stockholders) demurred by general and special demurrer. This demurrer was sustained and plaintiff declined to amend. Judgment went for the demurring defendants and plaintiff has appealed on a bill of exceptions.

The gravamen of the…