Raynolds v. Diamond Mills Paper Co.
New Jersey Court of Chancery
1Opinion of the Court
Stevenson, Y. C.
(orally).
The bill is filed to secure two objects: One of these objects is to secure for all the stockholders of the defendant corporation, individually and severally, the benefit of a dividend, a distribution to be made to them severally and respectively of at least a portion of the accumulated profits of the corporate business. This remedy is one which is sought on behalf of each stockholder as an individual and the natural defendant in the proceeding is the corporation, the stockholders collectively, taken as a body, engaged not in individual pursuits, but in the pursuit of…
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