Ganzer v. Rosenfeld
| Citation | 141 N.W. 121,153 Wis. 442 |
| Parties | GANZER ET AL. v. ROSENFELD ET AL. |
| Decision Date | 29 April 1913 |
| Court | United States State Supreme Court of Wisconsin |
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Appeal from Circuit Court, Sauk County; E. Ray Stevens, Judge.
Action by F. J. Ganzer and others against R. J. Rosenfeld and others. From an order overruling a general demurrer to the complaint, defendants appeal. Affirmed.Daniel H. Grady, of Portage, for appellants.
Grotophorst, Evans & Thomas, of Baraboo, for respondents.
This is an appeal from an order overruling a general demurrer to the complaint. The only serious question involved is whether stockholders and creditors of a foreign corporation, which has its business office in this state, may maintain an action in equity in the courts of this state against resident officers of the corporation to recover, on behalf of the corporation, corporate moneys converted by such officers, as well as moneys lost to the corporation by their fraudulent and negligent conduct. This question must be answered in the affirmative. It is doubtless true that the courts of a state will not assume to dissolve or regulate the internal affairs of a foreign corporation; in other words, they will not exercise visitorial powers over such a corporation; but they may and will, in a proper case, require an accounting and restoration of property and money misappropriated or wasted by unfaithful officers who are within their jurisdiction. Miller v. Quincy, 179 N. Y. 294, 72 N. E. 116;Richardson v. Clinton Co., 181 Mass. 580, 64 N. E. 400; 19 Cyc. pp. 1236, 1237, 1238.
Order affirmed.
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