Scarborough

Consolidated Reservoir & Power Co. v. Scarborough

Good Law
1932 Cal. LEXIS 632·216 Cal. 698·16 P.2d 268
Supreme Court of CaliforniaNovember 23, 1932Docket No. L.A. 11407.California2,894 words

Opinion

Lead Opinion

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon an order sustaining demurrers to the second amended complaint without leave to amend. The action sounds in fraud, and has for its purpose the recovery of certain damages and properties which it is averred the plaintiff has respectively suffered and lost by reason of an asserted fraudulent conspiracy between the defendants. The alleged fraudulent transactions of which complaint is made occurred in 1924. This action was commenced more than four years thereafter. In brief, the second amended complaint alleges that the plaintiff corporation was the owner of certain described real and personal properties of a designated value; that in the year 1924 this property was diverted from and lost to the plaintiff by reason of a fraudulent scheme and conspiracy between the defendants by means of which conspiracy the properties described were improperly employed to cover and satisfy the defalcations of one of the defendants in a matter in which the plaintiff corporation had no interest or connection; that this result was accomplished by means of false and fraudulent representations being made to the board of directors of the plaintiff corporation by…

Dissenting Opinion

I think the complaint sufficient.

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