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Corporations-Consolidation And Merger-Liability For The Obligations Of The Old Company-American Railway Express Company Cases
Michigan Law Review
Following the taking over of the railroads under proclamation of the President dated December 26, 1917, it was suggested by Mr. McAdoo, Director General of Railroads, that various express companies whose contracts with the railroads for transportation of goods pursuant to the general conduct of the express business had been virtually annulled by the proclamation, should form a new corporation, transfer to it property used in the express business and receive in consideration stock in the new company. The Director General made the suggestion to expedite the nation's war time transportation, and it was immediately accepted by the companies. He …
The Massachusetts Trust-Called Partnership, Joint-Stock Company, Corporation By The Courts
The Massachusetts Trust-Called Partnership, Joint-Stock Company, Corporation By The Courts
Michigan Law Review
The so-called Massachusetts Trust, as a form of business organization, had its beginning in England some two hundred years ago, and as trading associations they came to be preferred to corporations, in the early days of their history, for their members lacked the immunity from debts of the concern that corporate shareholders possessed. The business trust, in a rudimentary form, made its initial appearance in Massachusetts in 1827, and due to the current of more or less dissatisfaction with the corporate form of business organization there appears to be a present tendency toward the trust form, though Mr. Cook believes …
The Influence Of Securities Regulation Upon Standards Of Corporation Financing, Forrest B. Ashby
The Influence Of Securities Regulation Upon Standards Of Corporation Financing, Forrest B. Ashby
Michigan Law Review
During the first years of the present century both promotional and manipulative swindling in connection with stocks and bonds flourished in the face of the obsolescent and poorly enforced fraud laws which were administered by prosecutors and courts inexperienced in corporate finance. It was not until 1911, after the securities problem had been put squarely before it by the state banking commissioner, that the Kansas legislature passed the first blue sky law to check the issuance and sale of unsound corporate obligations. Since 1911 the development of securities legislation has proceeded until at the present time forty-six states have statutes …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Corporations-Repurchase Of Its Own Shares By A Corporation In Performane Of A Promise Forming Part Of The Contract Of Sale
Michigan Law Review
One Rosenthal entered the employ of the defendant corporation for two years at a salary of $10,000.00 per year; $75.00 per week to be paid in cash, and the balance to be paid in stock of the corporation at the end of each year. The contract contained a proviso that if the parties could not, at the end of the second year, reach an understanding for a continuation of the employment, the company would repurchase its shares at their par value. No such agreement was reached, and the company refused to take back its stock. Rosenthal brought his bill in …
Damages-Apportionment Of Punitive Damages In An Action Against Agent And Corporation Jointly
Damages-Apportionment Of Punitive Damages In An Action Against Agent And Corporation Jointly
Michigan Law Review
The recent South Carolina case of Johnson v. Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., presents, it is submitted, an undesirable extension of the rule announced in Goddard v. Grand Trunk R. Co. The latter decided that a corporation or principal is liable in punitive damages for a malicious act of its agent committed in the course of, or in connection with, his duties or employment. The prevailing opinion seems to be that the principal is liable (in exemplary damages) only when he has authorized, participated in, or ratified the act of the agent. or was negligent in the selection of …
Power Of Agricultural Co-Operative Associations To Limit Production, Milton J. Keegan
Power Of Agricultural Co-Operative Associations To Limit Production, Milton J. Keegan
Michigan Law Review
Farmers within recent years have recognized the necessity of combining in larger and still larger numbers, and great cooperative farm organizations have been formed, some of them with sales reaching $100,000,000 each year. These organizations in 1923 did a combined business estimated at $2,200,000,000. "Giant marketing associations, covering whole states, and even groups of states, have been organized with startling rapidity in the great cotton and tobacco growing states." Co-operative marketing legislation has given these groups great and far reaching powers to attain the end of making agriculture more profitable and to secure better returns to the producers of farm …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
Corporations-Right Of Majority To Amend Charter Under Reserved Right Of State
Corporations-Right Of Majority To Amend Charter Under Reserved Right Of State
Michigan Law Review
As everyone knows, the famous Dartmouth College case established, rightly or wrongly, that a corporate charter is a contract between the state and the corporation and the members of the corporation. Ever since that case the states have sought to avoid the resulting restrictions placed on the power to amend or repeal by the federal Constitution by expressly reserving the power at the time of incorporation.
The Corporation Sole
Michigan Law Review
In the recent case of Reid v. Barry, the Florida court stirred among the bones of common law relics to invoke the aid of the corporation sole doctrine, coming to the conclusion that the Roman Catholic Bishop of St. Augustine was a sole corporation, capable of holding property by succession. The ancient learning on this anomalous but useful corporate entity is to be found in Blackstone, Coke, and Grant ; the few reported cases that have appeared since the days of these commentators have in general confirmed what they said. Maitland in delving into its history said; "An ecclesiastical …
Corporations-Debts In Excess Of Statuatory Limit
Corporations-Debts In Excess Of Statuatory Limit
Michigan Law Review
Business Corporations generally have the power to borrow money for the purpose of their ordinary business, and to give the customary evidence of the debt and security therefor. Such power can be limited only by statute or by the charter. Statutes frequently provide that corporations should not incur indebtedness in excess of some particular stated amount, usually a certain proportion of the capital stock. A recent Nebraska case allowed the lender full recovery from the guarantor of corporate notes given in exchange for a loan in excess of the statutory limit, holding that excessive indebtedness does not necessarily invalidate contract …
Recent Important Decisions
Michigan Law Review
A collection of recent important court decisions.
The Influence Of Control In The Determination Of Partnership Liability, Scott Rowley
The Influence Of Control In The Determination Of Partnership Liability, Scott Rowley
Michigan Law Review
The influence of control in the determination of partnership liability raises many interesting questions. Particularly within the past decade or slightly more it has been considered by the courts, at times with considerable vigor and with little logic or historical background. A perusal of the texts on partnership discloses very little mention of control as a test of partnership. As a rule it has not earned a place in the indices. The digests are almost equally devoid of place for it. In the few older cases where it is considered at all, it is quite often treated as a poor …