Bank of America National Trust & Savings Ass'n v. United States

How later courts describe this case

• single director or shareholder can bring action on behalf of corporation without making demand on the board of directors to do so when futile to make such demand
• subdivider with a contract to develop property owned by a third party has a sufficient property interest where property "taken" by government is adjacent to the third party's property
• “The burden of proof, i.e., the risk of non-persuasion, never shifts from the party on whom it is placed. The burden of going forward with the evidence may shift during the course of trial”