Fratessa v. Superior Court

Petitioners and two others, as stockholders of the Sunset Pacific Oil Company, brought suit in respondent court for the purpose of procuring an accounting and to recover a money judgment from the defendants, excepting the corporation named, which was one of them. The suit was thus commenced because of the refusal of the corporation to begin such an action and was commenced for its benefit. Later, the corporation filed a cross-complaint praying for the relief which plaintiffs had demanded in the complaint. Later still, the property of the corporation was placed in the hands of a receiver under…