Legal Opinion
In Re Kauffman Mutual Fund Actions. Joseph B. Kauffman
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided May 14, 1973No. 72-1288PublishedCited by 153 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Senior Circuit Judge.
This appeal challenges two rulings of the district court that plaintiff’s derivative suit on behalf of certain mutual funds of which he is a shareholder is not maintainable because of failure to allege sufficient reason to excuse a prior demand on the directors, and, as to two funds, on the shareholder. F.R.Civ.P. Rule 23.1, post.1 We reach only the first issue.
Plaintiff is a shareholder in four mutual funds, the Dreyfus Fund, Inc., Manhattan Fund, Inc., Fidelity Trend Fund, Inc., and the Putnam Growth Fund, the latter two being, respectively, a Massachusetts…
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