Lanini

The defendants were sued as members of the Salinas Valley Dairymen’s Association, "a nonprofit cooperative corporation, for their proportionate share of an indebtedness created under the authority of the board of directors of the corporation. Plaintiffs had judgment, from which the defendants have appealed upon a typewritten record under section 953a of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The single ground urged on the appeal is that the evidence is insufficient to justify the decision and that the decision is against law. We have said that this is a single ground because the contention that the decision is against law is predicated wholly upon the theory that the decision is not supported by the evidence. The appellants have cited in their brief portions of the articles of incorporation and by-laws of the association from which it appears that the organization was created for the purpose of marketing the dairy products of the members of the association and that the property rights and interest of each member were unequal, being based upon the proportion which the amount of the membership fees actually paid in by each bore to the total amount of all membership fees paid by all members…