Jackson v. the Gables

This is an appeal by certain defendants from a judgment rendered against them in an action, the nature of which will hereinafter appear. The appeal comes before us on the judgment-roll alone. The nature of the ease will appear "from the findings of fact and these said findings controlling, as they must, the judgment will be determinative of the appeal. The Gables is a corporation regularly organized and existing, with its principal place of business at Los Angeles. More than seventy-five per cent of the capital stock of said corporation is owned by the defendants Cohen, Saunders and Crawford. These defendants were the directors of the corporation at all times covered by the pleadings, the two first named being president and secretary, respectively. It seems that this corporation owned and controlled and operated what was by it designated as a club, though not in the sense that the term is generally used. The name of the club was “The Gables”. This club was not a social organization, the affairs of which were directed, in any sense, by the members, but was more in the nature of an invitational hotel or rendezvous for those who might comply with the terms of the corporation.…