Jones v. States

ROBERTSON, Justice.

Appellant, J. Raymond Jones, has moved to dismiss his appeal from a judgment which denied him leave to be substituted as plaintiff in a suit originally brought by a corporation in which he was a stockholder. Appellant’s appeal was based upon his alleged equitable right to protect his beneficial interest in the corporation when the corporation lost its right to sue for failure to pay its franchise taxes. Although the corporation’s suit was also dismissed by the judgment, only Jones appealed. Jones now informs us that the franchise taxes have been paid, and the corporation’s…