Anderson v. United Gilpin Corp.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The appellants, who are residents of the vicinity of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, unsuccessfully sought to be dismissed from a suit which was instituted in the Federal Court in Chicago, and, so they assert, without their knowledge and without their authority. Their appeals here are to reverse the order denying them leave to file their petitions.

Appellants were, and are, stockholders of a gold mining company named Chain O’Mines, Incorporated. The officers of this company believed they had a cause of action against certain individuals who had allegedly conspired to defraud them of…