Jacobs v. Mexican Sugar Refining Co.

In this action the plaintiff seeks to recover a judgment to the effect that an attempted cancellation by the defendant, the Mexican Sugar Refining Company, of a certain lease made by it of a sugar plantation in Mexico be declared null and void. The defendant, the Mexican Sugar Company, is interested in the said demised property through an assignment of the lease to it. This action is not brought by the plaintiff on behalf of the defendant, the Mexican Sugar Company, a foreign corporation, of which he is a stockholder, but it is brought by him on behalf of himself and of other stockholders…