BYRON JACKSON CO. v. PATTERSON-BALLAGH CORPORATION

No. 10473.

144 F.2d 766 (1944)

BYRON JACKSON CO. v. PATTERSON-BALLAGH CORPORATION et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

September 25, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chickering & Gregory, Donald Y. Lamont, Frederick M. Fisk, and Stephen A. Duhring, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Lyon & Lyon, Leonard S. Lyon, and Irwin L. Fuller, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Musick, Burrell & Pinney, Howard Burrell, and Anson B. Jackson, Jr., all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees.

Before GARRECHT, DENMAN, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by a stockholder in appellee corporation in a derivative stockholder's suit, from a judgment holding that the appellees Ballagh and Miller, directors of the appellee corporation, were legally paid certain compensation for services rendered the latter corporation.

The suit is at common law for a money damage for the claimed wrongful acts of the directors. Though fraud is alleged, no accounting or other equitable relief...

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