Pellio v. Bulls Head Coal Co.

Citations

• 231 Pa. 157
• 80 A. 71
• 1911 Pa. LEXIS 808

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — Stockholders’ bill — Actions—Right of stockholder to bring suit in his own name — Notice to the company to bring suit.</p> <p>A bill brought by an individual stockholder of a corporation in his own name to recover moneys wrongfully taken from the corporation will be dismissed where the only application to the officers of the company to bring suit in its name was by a mere notice addressed to the president and attorney of the corporation notifying them to bring suit and only inferentially indicating the parties against whom action was to be taken.</p>