Speckert v. Bunker Hill Arizona Mining Co.

This action was brought to recover against defendant corporation and three of its directors $1,600.32, the amount of illegal assessments against plaintiff’s shares of stock in defendant corporation, alleged to have been paid by plaintiff because of threat of defendants to sell plaintiff’s shares of stock if plaintiff refused to pay the assessments. The defense pleaded was that the money was voluntarily paid with full knowledge of the facts.

The cause was tried to the court, which found that defendants did not at any time orally threaten to sell plaintiff’s shares of stock, and that the written…