Whitten v. Dabney
California Supreme Court
APPEALS' from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County, and from an order refusing to strike out a cost bill. William S. Wells, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Kemp, Mitchell & Silberberg, and Gibson & Woolner, for Plaintiffs and Appellants in No. 6486 and Respondents in No. 6591. W. B. Rinehart, and W. H. H. Hart, for Defendants and Respondents.
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APPEALS' from a judgment of the Superior Court of Alameda County, and from an order refusing to strike out a cost bill. William S. Wells, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Kemp, Mitchell & Silberberg, and Gibson & Woolner, for Plaintiffs and Appellants in No. 6486 and Respondents in No. 6591. W. B. Rinehart, and W. H. H. Hart, for Defendants and Respondents. John Ralph Wilson, and Walter G. Bonta, for Intervener and Respondent in No. 6486 and Appellant in No. 6591.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Plaintiffs as stockholders of the Dabney Oil Company sued defendants Dabney, Miley, and Butler, alleging certain fraudulent impositions practiced by them upon the Dabney Oil Company resulting in great loss to that company. They asked for an accounting on behalf of the company against these defendants and a recovery into the treasury of the company of the amount of which it might be determined that the company had been defrauded. A conspiracy to commit these asserted fraudulent acts is charged against the three men. Their control of the corporation through its board of directors and the…
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