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" ... of a court of equity may be put in motion at the instance of a single shareholder, if he can show that the corporation are employing their statutory powers for the accomplishment of purposes not within the scope of their institution. "
The Life and Writings of ... Vincent L. Bradford - Page 211
by Henry Edwin Dwight - 1885 - 297 pages
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A Treatise on the Law of Consolidation of Railroad Companies: Being an ...

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,...
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Reports of Decisions in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 1

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...
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Reports of Cases Decided by Chief Justice Chase in the Circuit Court of the ...

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...
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Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the ..., Book 15

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...
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Federal Decisions: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme ..., Volume 10

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...
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Reports of Cases Decided in the Court of Appeals of the State of ..., Volume 110

New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Hiram Edward Sickels - 1888 - 812 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...
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Cases on the General Principles of the Law of Private Corporations, Volume 1

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...
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A Hand-book of Corporation Law: As Applied to Private Business Corporations

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...
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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Private Corporations

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...
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Select Cases and Other Authorities on the Law of Private Corporations

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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