Burnham v. Brush

These actions stem from a common root; each is a derivative stockholder’s action brought by one or more minority stockholders of the defendant Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Corporation against present and past officers and directors thereof and certain other individuals; in each action recovery is sought on behalf of the corporation; hence the real party in interest, on the side of the plaintiffs, is the same in each action. Motion is made by various individual defendants, appearing by the same firm of attorneys, to consolidate the actions and to state and separately number the causes of action,…