Nauslar v. Coors Brewing Co.

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• holding that only one whose primary legal right has been breached may seek redress for injury
• holding that “[t]he right of recovery is [the limited partnership]’s right alone, even though the economic impact of the alleged wrongdoing may bring about reduced earnings, salary or bonus” to those holding interests in the partnership
• holding individual stakeholder of a legal entity does not have the right to personally recover for harms done to the legal entity
• rejecting plaintiffs’ contention that limited partners are able to bring a direct action for loss of value in the partnership
• rejecting plaintiff's contention that he had standing to sue individually because he was personally aggrieved and suffered direct injury from defendants' actions, which allegedly diminished the value of plaintiff's ownership interest in the partnership
• damages belonged to partnership despite pleading he was “personally aggrieved” by and suffered “direct damages” from defendants

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