Knowles v. Sandercock
California Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the Superior Court of the City and County of San Francisco and from an order denying a new trial. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtTemple, J.
This action was brought by the assignee of numerous creditors of the California Southern Hotel Company, a corporation, against certain stockholders, to enforce their liability as stockholders for the debts of the corporation.
The complaint contained thirty-four separate causes of action. Prior to the trial one appellant, the California Furniture Manufacturing Company, paid its proportion of the indebtedness contained in the first thirty causes of action, and went to trial on the last four. The other appellants, Nathan Goldtree, Morris Goldtree, Isaac Goldtree, and J. H. Hollister, contested…
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