Roberts v. Alabama Power Co.

James Otis Roberts, a shareholder1 and former employee of Alabama Power Company, filed this derivative action on behalf of the nominal defendant, Alabama Power Company, alleging that the individually named defendants engaged in the following acts which injured the Company and shareholders:

1) the transfer of the plaintiff from a position of supervisory responsibility to a non-supervisory position;

2) the gratuitous absorption of expenses incurred in installing underground electrical facilities at Eastdale Mall, Montgomery, Alabama;

3) the gratuitous rendition of services to then State Senator…