REED v. BURTON

Docket No. 60, Calendar No. 46,447.

344 Mich. 126 (1955)

73 N.W.2d 333

REED v. BURTON.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided December 1, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan E. Shur, for plaintiff.

Walter A. Kleinert, for defendants Giles, Kleinert and Sauer.

William B. Giles, for defendant Burton Mortgage Bond Company, asking affirmance.


SMITH, J.

The plaintiff-appellant in this action is a director and stockholder of defendant Burton Mortgage Bond Company, a Michigan corporation. The defendants-appellees are 3 directors of the corporation. They have no other official duties with respect to the corporation. They sit on the board and they direct. We will call them naked directors, borrowing the expression from their brief, to distinguish them from the remaining directors, all of whom are officers of...

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