There appears to be a distinction between those cases where the directors are charged with improper conduct in dealings between their corporations and persons or corporations other than themselves and those cases where a charge is made of personal benefit. In the frequently cited case of Walsh v. Van Ameringen-Haebler ( 257 N.Y. 478, revg. 231 App. Div. 653), after charging that it was the duty of the defendant "to honestly, diligently and carefully administer the affairs" of the corporation and to see that the property of the corporation was "not wasted or squandered and to faithfully and diligently perform all duties devolving upon them as said directors and officers" and their failure to do so, the complaint merely alleged that the defendants (p. 655): "`improperly and wrongfully suffered and permitted the monies of said defendant * * * to be paid to themselves and others for commissions, expenses and salaries, without receiving for the corporation adequate consideration therefor'" and "`wrongfully and improperly voted large and excessive salaries to themselves, and encumbered and sold the assets of the defendant * * * whereby said defendants greatly profited'". The Appellate Division had dismissed the complaint ( 231 App. Div. 653). The Court of Appeals, in reversing (p. 480), said: "The allegation that the directors voted themselves