Knowles

This action was brought by the assignee of numerous creditors of the California Southern Hotel Company, a corporation, against certain stockholders, to enforce their liability as stockholders for the debts of the corporation.

The complaint contained thirty-four separate causes of action. Prior to the trial one appellant, the California Furniture Manufacturing Company, paid its proportion of the indebtedness contained in the first thirty causes of action, and went to trial on the last four. The other appellants, Nathan Goldtree, Morris Goldtree, Isaac Goldtree, and J. H. Hollister, contested all causes of action. Judgment went for plaintiff on all contested *635 issues. All the appellants moved for a new trial, which being denied, each appeals from the whole of the several judgment against him, though all the points made by them on this appeal have reference to the last four causes of action.

In each separate cause of action it is alleged that six hundred and ninety shares of the capital stock of the California Southern Hotel Company, and no more, had been continuously subscribed for during all the times mentioned in the complaint, and that the appellants Goldtree had…