Denny

In this action the plaintiff sought to recover certain sums alleged to be due to it from the defendants upon the stockholders’ liability of said defendants and each of them as stockholders of The Luthy Company, a California corporation, which had been organized for the purpose of manufacturing a certain automobile storage battery, and which had entered into certain agreements with the plaintiff, a national advertising agency, for the performance of certain services by the latter in conducting an advertising campaign and in preparing and placing the advertising to be done by The Luthy Company, in the course of marketing its products, in periodicals and upon sign-boards throughout the country. The complaint is in two counts, in the first of which the plaintiff seeks to recover from said defendants the proportionate sums claimed to be due from each under their aforesaid stockholders’ liability on account of certain payments of money which were made by the plaintiff to various periodicals with which it had placed the advertising of its principal, The Luthy Company, from time to time, and the bills for which the plaintiff had paid under the terms of its arrangement with its principal,…