| Elliott Anthony - 1865 - 320 pages
...corporation, when acting within the scope of, and in obedience to, the provisions of its constitutions, the will of the majority duly expressed at a legally...beyond the limits of the act of incorporation, the will ot the majority cannot make an act valid ; and the powers of a court of equity may be put in motion,... | |
| United States. Supreme Court, Samuel Freeman Miller - 1874 - 842 pages
...corporation, when acting within the scope of and in obedience to the provisions of its constitution, the will of the majority, duly expressed at a legally...of the majority cannot make an act valid; and the powtrs of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance of a single shareholder, if he can... | |
| Bradley Tyler Johnson, United States. Circuit Court (4th Circuit) - 1876 - 684 pages
...that a corporation acting within the scope of, and in obedience to the provisions of its constitution, the will of the majority duly expressed at a legally constituted meeting must govern (A. & A., § 380), yet beyond the limits of the act of incorporation, the will of the majority can... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - 1884 - 1108 pages
...acorporation, when acting within the scope of and in oliedience to the provisions of its constitution, the will of the majority, duly expressed at a legally...and the powers of a court of equity may be put in mo tion at the instance of a single shareholder, if he can show that the corporation are employing... | |
| 1884 - 1062 pages
...and in obedience to, the provisions of its constitution, the will of the majority, clearly expressed, must govern, yet beyond the limits of the act of incorporation the will of the majority cannot make the act valid, and the power of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance of a singlu... | |
| Horace La Fayette Wilgus - 1902 - 1252 pages
...of and in obedience to the provisions of its constitution, the -will of the majority, duly impressed at a legally constituted meeting, must govern; yet...the act of incorporation, the -will of the majority can not make an act valid; and the powers of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance... | |
| Richard Selden Harvey - 1906 - 602 pages
...the usual mode." Ibid., Vol. I., sec. 88, p. 131, etc. «* * * And the rule seems to be general that beyond the limits of the act of incorporation the...of the majority cannot make an act valid ; and the power of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance of a single shareholder, if he can... | |
| Leslie Jay Tompkins - 1908 - 1188 pages
...the charter, and to arrest by suit an unauthorized course of dealing which results in such diversion. The powers of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance of a single stockholder, if he can show that the corporation is employing its statutory powers for the accomplishment... | |
| Edward Henry Warren - 1909 - 736 pages
...corporation, when acting within the scope of and in obedience to the provisions of its constitution, the will of the majority, duly expressed at a legally...limits of the act of incorporation, the will of the majoritv cannot make an act valid ; and the powers of a court of equity may be put in motion at the... | |
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