Eshleman v. Keenan

The Chancellor:

The bill is one in which the complainants assert a derivative right to maintain a complaint in behalf of their corporation. What they seek to recover is not something personal to themselves, but something that belongs to the corporation and only indirectly inures to their benefit.

The proposed addition to the answer raises a question of whether it is material to the right of the complainants to the relief, to show that they are actuated by the motives indicated in the proposed amendment. In the case of Forrest v. Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Ry. Co., 4 deG., F. & J.…