Des Moines Bank & Trust Co. v. George M. Bechtel & Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “But if such demand would be a vain and useless thing no demand is necessary, but the petition should state the reasons.”
• “All persons conspiring or co-operating with or aiding and abetting the officers or directors of a corporation in defrauding the corporation are equally liable with them.”
• “[T]he corporation for whose benefit the suit is brought, although actually the plaintiff, is a nominal defendant.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).