Maury v. Hitchcock

District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Maury v. Hitchcock, 35 App. D.C. 228 (D.C. 1910)
1910 U.S. App. LEXIS 5886
Shepard

Maury v. Hitchcock

Opinion of the Court

Mr. Chief Justice Shepard

delivered the opinion of the Court:

The petition for certiorari in this case was filed for the purpose of bringing up for review the same proceedings and decision of the Postmaster General as in the preceding case of Degge v. Hitchcock, No. 2115 [ante, 218]. The petitioners allege themselves to be stockholders and directors in the several corporations that are petitioners in No. 2115.

It is unnecessary, in view of the disposition made of the appeal in No. 2115, to consider whether the stockholders of a corporation can have any recognition in a court of law of the right to complain of injury to the corporation. The same matters having been presented in the petition of the several corporations and their president and manager, Degge, and having been determined adversely to them, nothing remains but to affirm the judgment appealed from in this case, with costs. It is so ordered. Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
MAURY v. HITCHCOCK
Status
Published
Syllabus
Corporations ; Stock and Stockholders. 3. This case is governed by the decision of the court in the case of Degge v. Hitchcock, ante, 218. 2. Quaere, whether the stockholders of a corporation can have any recognition, in a court of law, of the right to complain of an injury to the corporation.