WOODSIDE v. BECKHAM

No. 56.

216 U.S. 117 (1910)

WOODSIDE v. BECKHAM.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 21, 1910.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. John R. Smith, with whom Mr. Hartley B. Woods was on the brief, for plaintiff in error.

Mr. J.W. Jamison, with whom Mr. R.J. Williamson and Mr. J.N. Hughes were on the brief, for defendants in error.


MR. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER delivered the opinion of the court.

This was an action to recover of defendants, as directors of the Neptune Mining Company, a Colorado corporation, the sum of $5,500 as the aggregate amount of claims or demands of the plaintiff and of thirty other persons, firms or corporations against the mining company, which had been assigned to the plaintiff.

The liability was asserted to arise under...

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