Williams v. Erie Mountain Consolidated Mining Co.
Washington Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the superior court for Spokane county, Kennan, J., entered June 27, 1906, in favor of the plaintiffs, upon overruling a demurrer to the complaint, in an action by stockholders for the fraudulent diversion of the assets of a corporation.
1Opinion of the CourtDunbar, J.
This action was brought by the plaintiffs, alleging that they at one time were stockholders in the Erie Mountain Consolidated Mining Company, and that after-wards they had their stock transferred into the Erie Consolidated Gold Mining Company, in consideration of a certain agreement between the two companies by which the property of the first company was to be transferred to the second company; that the complete transfer was not consummated by reason of a fraudulent conspiracy between the officers of said company, to wit, G. S. Allison, Rufus Merriam, Willis Merriam, and the defendant George…
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