Bassett

It is averred in the complaint that each of the plaintiffs is the owner of at least five shares of the capital stock of the corporation defendant, the Bitumen Consolidated Mining Company, the capital stock being $300,000, divided into shares of $100 each, and that this action is *460 brought on behalf of themselves and other stockholders. It is also averred that, during the times when the alleged wrongs were committed, defendants Fairchild, Ferine, Walrath and Miles were directors of the corporation defendant, the whole number of directors being six, and the other two being plaintiff Bassett and one Swift. It is further averred that said defendants, being a majority of the board of directors, improperly expended certain moneys of the corporation, and the purpose of the action is to recover from them the amount of money alleged to have been thus expended. The court rendered judgment against Fairchild, Ferine and Walrath for $10,729.90, which sum consists of $8,665.80 found to have been improperly expended, and legal interest thereon for several years, and against defendant Miles for $7,129.90 for money, and interest thereo'n, found to have been improperly expended by the directors…