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OSTRAND, J.:
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that the plaintiffs have not the legal capacity to bring this
action; (3) that the complaint does not state facts sufficient
to constitute a cause of action, and (4) that there is a defect
or misjoinder of parties defendant.
The court below sustained the demurrer on all four
grounds and held that the complaint, especially in its
paragraphs 4 and 5, is ambiguous, confusing, unintelligible
and vague; that Teal & Company should have been joined
as a party plaintiff; that, as f ar as the Philippine Motors
Corporation is concerned, the plaintiffs, not being
stockholders in that corporation, had no legal right to
proceed against it in this case; and that the court could not
be called upon to act as investigator of the facts referred to
in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the complaint, but that such
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II
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within ten days from the return of the record to the Court
of First Instance. So ordered.
Judgment reversed.
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