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Corporations - Voting Trusts - Power Of Voting Trustee To Elect Directors And Officers For Period Extending Beyond Termination Of Trust, Andrew J. Sawyer, Jr.

Michigan Law Review

Defendants held all the stock of a corporation as voting trustees under a voting trust which provided that it should terminate November 18, 1941, and that the trustees should deliver the stock to the holders of the participation certificates within thirty days thereafter. The agreement further provided that the trustees might elect themselves directors and officers of the corporation. At the time of the execution of the agreement, the by-laws of the corporation provided for annual shareholders' meetings in March. In 1939, defendant trustees, who had elected themselves directors and officers of the corporation, amended the by-laws to require the …