Clauss

This suit was brought in the court below by the appellant Andrew Clauss alone, but who the defendants thereto were does not appear, since the original bill is not in the record. The amended bill, however, is, and in that Clauss, a resident and citizen of the state of Ohio, was still the sole complainant, suing, as therein alleged, “on behalf of himself and all other persons similarly situated, and for the use and benefit of the Palmer Oil Company,” against Palmer Union Oil Company, a corporation of the state of California, the Anglo-Califomia Trust Company, a corporation of the same state, and Frank L. Brown, Lewis A. Hilborn, George L. Walker, Charles E. Ladd, Gavin McNab, FI. C. Stratton, and George I. Stewart, as directors of the Palmer Union Oil Company, and also individually, all alleged to be citizens of the state of California, except Ladd, who is therein alleged to be a citizen and resident of the state of Oregon, and also against the same named individuals “as directors of said Palmer Oil Company, * * * or trustees thereof, if said corporation be defunct, also against the several parties in their individual capacities.”

The amended bill alleges that on or about October…