Porter v. Mesilla Valley Cotton Products Co.

BRICE, Justice.

This is a stockholders’ suit, brought by the appellees (minority stockholders) in behalf of the Mesilla Valley Cotton Products Company, a corporation, for an accounting against J. B. Wray, its president and active manager. Wray alone answered. While the suit was pending in the district court, Wray died, and the El Paso National Bank, the executor of his last will and testament, was substituted for him as defendant. From a judgment in favor of the corporation and against the defendant, defendant has appealed.

J. B. Wray will be styled “Wray”; the appellees Porter and Heid,…