Noyes v. Parsons
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for King county, Mitchell, J., entered July 23, 1917, upon sustaining a demurrer to the complaint, dismissing an action for equitable relief, tried to the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHolcomb, J.
This is an action of equitable nature, by the receiver of an insolvent domestic corporation against its trustees and officers, with whom the other stockholders are joined as defendants because of their participation in the wrongs charged, to recover for the amounts taken from the corporation’s assets by another corporation in whose possession and control it is alleged the defendants, in violation of their duties as trustees and officers, merged their own corporation. The facts stated in the complaint may be summarized as follows:
In the year 1908, there were engaged in the banking business at…
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