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Corporations-Insolvency-Proof Of Claims
Corporations--Corporate Liability For Ultra Vires Acts, Kingsley R. Smith
Corporations--Corporate Liability For Ultra Vires Acts, Kingsley R. Smith
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Municipal Corporations-Proper Street Use
Burden Of Proof In Rate Cases Involving Inter-Corporate Charges, William E. Treadway
Burden Of Proof In Rate Cases Involving Inter-Corporate Charges, William E. Treadway
Michigan Law Review
The United States Supreme Court has held repeatedly that dealings between intercorporately related companies should be scrutinized closely to prevent any unfair advantage being taken of a subsidiary public utility company by a dominant organization through an exercise of the control inherent in capital stock ownership.1 Yet in an opinion written by Mr. Justice McReynolds in 1923, the court laid down a rule for utilities commissions in rate cases involving intercorporate service-contract charges which, if strictly adhered to, would have sounded the death knell for effective commission regulation.
Corporations-Validity Of Default Provisions In Trust Mortgages
Corporations-Validity Of Default Provisions In Trust Mortgages
Michigan Law Review
Ordinarily a secured creditor can take action to protect his claim against his debtor. When, however, the creditor is only one of many whose claims are equal in lien and right, it may be undesirable that any single creditor should be able to take independent action. This fact has led draftsmen to insert in corporate mortgages provisions limiting the rights of minority bondholders to take action in the event of default under the mortgage. The use of such provisions has created an apparent hotbed of judicial dissension.
Receivers - Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment
Receivers - Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment
Michigan Law Review
In a comment appearing in the May issue of the Review (30 MICH. L. REV. 1094), this writer considered the existing conflict of decisions on the question of a receiver's liability for corporate franchise taxes accruing during the period of receivership. The opposing views, as represented by In Re Detroit Properties Co., 254 Mich. 523, 236 N. W. 850 (1931), and Michigan Trust Co. v. Michigan (C. C. A. 6th, 1931) 52 F.(2d) 842, were compared and evaluated. Both decisions were based on the same Michigan statute (2 Comp. Laws 1929, sec. 10140). It was pointed out that the …
Municipal Corporations-Negotiable Instruments-Estoppel
Municipal Corporations-Negotiable Instruments-Estoppel
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
When Is A Corporation Insolvent?, Floyd Mathew Rett
When Is A Corporation Insolvent?, Floyd Mathew Rett
Michigan Law Review
There is general unanimity that as to real persons "insolvency" means the inability of a debtor to pay his obligations as .they fall due in the usual course of business - even though the value of his assets exceeds the aggregate of his liabilities. But the question - when is a corporation insolvent - the question to which this paper is devoted, is one with very varied answers. The answers may vary both with the nature of the corporation concerned and with the type of transaction involved. There are, however, two conventional definitions of corporate "insolvency," with occasional variations and …
Corporations - Obligation To Refund Dividends Paid Out Of Capital
Corporations - Obligation To Refund Dividends Paid Out Of Capital
Michigan Law Review
The general rule is fairly well established that, where dividends are paid, in whole or in part, out of the capital stock, corporate creditors, being such when the dividend was declared, or becoming such at any subsequent time, may, to the extent of their claims, if such claims are not otherwise paid, compel the stockholders to whom the dividend has been paid to refund whatever portion of the dividend was taken out of the capital stock. This, however, has been modified in the federal courts to the extent that where the dividend, although paid entirely out of capital, was received …
Receivers -Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment
Receivers -Liability For Corporate Franchise Taxes Accruing After Appointment
Michigan Law Review
General business conditions of the last three years have made the field of receivership law an extremely interesting and important one to that portion of the bar which has been picking up the pieces left by the debacle of 1929. The widespread liquidation and dissolution of great business organizations has been effected in large part through the medium of the receivership. One of the more difficult problems arising in connection with such receiverships has been the liability of the receiver for franchise taxes. Such taxes have been held to be not property levies but excises on the privilege to carry …
Corporations-Service Of Process On Subsidiary To Bind Parent
Corporations-Service Of Process On Subsidiary To Bind Parent
Michigan Law Review
In a suit against the defendant the only service was that on a domestic subsidiary of the defendant. The defendant challenges the jurisdiction of the court on the ground that it has no "place of business" within the district. Held, whether the service was good raises a fact question; on the evidence the defendant so far ignored the separate entity of its subsidiary as to permit it to be served with process by service on its subsidiary as its agent. Gray v. Eastman Kodak Co., 53 F.(2d) 864 (1930).
Corporations - Rights And Remedies Of Dissenting Stockholders Upon Consolidation And Merger
Corporations - Rights And Remedies Of Dissenting Stockholders Upon Consolidation And Merger
Michigan Law Review
Consolidation or merger of private corporations in recent years has been more and more frequent. One of the most engrossing problems when such unions take place is that of the rights and remedies of dissenting shareholders. The question which arises most frequently in cases of consolidation or merger, and that in the solution of which, paradoxicaIIy, our courts tend to expend the least amount of legal acumen, is whether the consolidation or merger of corporations operates to dissolve the constituent corporations in such a manner as materially to affect the rights of the shareholders in those corporations.
Expanding Principles Of Jurisdiction
Expanding Principles Of Jurisdiction
Michigan Law Review
In the recent case of Frank S. Young Co. v. McNeal-Edwards Co., the plaintiff, a Massachusetts corporation, purchased a quantity of oil from the defendant, a Virginia corporation, the vendee to return the oil drums. Alleging a breach of warranty, the plaintiff filed suit in Massachusetts, gaining jurisdiction by attachment of the oil drums. Subsequently the defendant filed suit for conversion of these oil drums, upon which the plaintiff dropped his first suit and started this suit in the federal court by a service of process upon the attorney of record of the defendant in its suit as provided …
Corporations - Issue Of Stock
Michigan Law Review
The Eastman Kodak Company, a New Jersey corporation, entered into a contract with Vereinigte Fabriken Photagraphischer Papiere of Dresden, a German corporation, whereby it was agreed that the German company would discontinue the manufacture and sale of "Collodion papers" in North America, Great Britain, France, Spain, and Portugal and that those territories would be given over exclusively to the Eastman Company for the manufacture and sale of this paper. In consideration of this concession the Eastman Company issued 28,450 shares of its no par stock to the German company. This stock was later seized by the United States Alien Property …
Limitation Of Diversity Jurisdiction In Cases Affecting Foreign Corporations, Gustavus Ohlinger
Limitation Of Diversity Jurisdiction In Cases Affecting Foreign Corporations, Gustavus Ohlinger
Michigan Law Review
On February 29, 1932, President Hoover sent to the Senate and House of Representatives a message recommending that the jurisdiction of federal courts based on diversity of citizenship be modified by "providing that where a corporation, organized under the laws of one State, carries on business in another State it shall be treated as a citizen of the State wherein it carries on business as respects suits brought within that State between it and the residents thereof arising out of the business carried on in such State."
Corporations - Corporate Reorganization Under Charter Agreement -Validity Of Enabling Statutes
Corporations - Corporate Reorganization Under Charter Agreement -Validity Of Enabling Statutes
Michigan Law Review
That reorganization is vexatious, frequently long drawn out and costly, is universally conceded. In the absence of statutory provisions, the only known judicial process whereby a court may set a reorganization in motion is a foreclosure and sale, or sale by court decree in an equity receivership. In most cases the real and only purpose of a reorganization is to work out a capital structure which the business of the corporation will support, hence, the sale under foreclosure or by court decree is a device rather than an independent end. As a result, much confusion and uncertainty exist under the …
Corporations - Insolvency - Statutes Giving Priority To Wage Claims
Corporations - Insolvency - Statutes Giving Priority To Wage Claims
Michigan Law Review
Statutes giving liens or preferences to wage claims upon the insolvency of corporations are found among the laws of many states. In reference to the priority established, these statutes can be divided into three classes: those specifically stating that the lien or preference created shall be prior to all other claims not secured by specific liens, those specifically stating that wage claims shall be superior to all other claims upon the property of the corporation, including mortgages, and those making wage claims a lien or preferred debt to be paid "before any other debt or debts." Under this last type …
Corporations -Apportionment Of Part Payment Of Purchase Price Of Stocks Bought In A Unit
Corporations -Apportionment Of Part Payment Of Purchase Price Of Stocks Bought In A Unit
Michigan Law Review
The defendant corporation entered into contracts for the sale of stock in blocks of three shares, two shares of first preferred at fifty dollars each par value and one share of second preferred at fifty dollars par value, the three shares to be sold in a unit for one hundred and thirty-five dollars. The contract contained an agreement that after six monthly payments had been made on the stock, upon default of the remaining payments the corporation would issue certificates of indebtedness for the amount paid in. In the dissolution of the corporation and the distribution of the assets, the …
Corporations - Rights Of Bondholder Under A Trust Indenture
Corporations - Rights Of Bondholder Under A Trust Indenture
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff was the owner of bonds issued by the defendant real estate corporation which were secured by real estate mortgages in the control of a trustee under a trust indenture to which reference was made in the bonds. The indenture provided, "no holder . . . shall have any right to institute any suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity or take any other steps or proceedings for any remedy hereunder," unless 25 per cent of the holders shall have requested the trustee to exercise the powers granted and the trustee thereafter fails or refuses to proceed. Plaintiff, …
Equitable Limitations On Statutory Or Charter Powers Given To Majority Stockholders, Norman D. Lattin
Equitable Limitations On Statutory Or Charter Powers Given To Majority Stockholders, Norman D. Lattin
Michigan Law Review
The object of this paper is to examine certain fundamental corporate changes which statutes or articles frequently authorize majority stockholders, or a certain proportion of all, to bring about, and to ascertain whether courts have looked simply to the literal wording of the authority and have sanctioned the action if in accord with the statute or whether they have implied equitable restrictions in spite of apparently unlimited authority in the statute or articles. How far, for example, have courts gone in the direction of the business man's idea that the corporation, after all, is a democratic affair, and that the …
Corporations--Disability Of Corporation To Act As Affecting Fiduciary Duty Of Director To Stockholder, John Hampton Hoge
Corporations--Disability Of Corporation To Act As Affecting Fiduciary Duty Of Director To Stockholder, John Hampton Hoge
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
Public Utilities--Is An Ice Business "Affected With A Public Interest", E. Gaujot Bias
Public Utilities--Is An Ice Business "Affected With A Public Interest", E. Gaujot Bias
West Virginia Law Review
No abstract provided.
A Comparative Study Of The Laws Of The Philippine Islands And Of The United States Of America Applicable To Private Corporations, Emilio M. Javier
A Comparative Study Of The Laws Of The Philippine Islands And Of The United States Of America Applicable To Private Corporations, Emilio M. Javier
SJD Dissertations
The main objective of the present treatise is to expound the similarities and dissimilarities of the laws of the Philippine Islands and of the United States of America applicable to private corporations. Act 1459, otherwise known as the Philippine Corporation Law, as amended and as radically modified recently, in many or its important provisions, by Act 3518, is made the basis of discussion from the Philippine view point. All the decisions of the Supreme Court of the Islands interpreting the provisions of the law, and which the author considers pertinent, are also discussed herein. Due to the fact that each …
Municipal Corporations-Public Utilities-Public Service Commission
Municipal Corporations-Public Utilities-Public Service Commission
Indiana Law Journal
No abstract provided.
Corporations - Service Of Process On A Subsidiary Corporation Doing Business In The State In An Action Against A Foreign Corporation
Michigan Law Review
The Freeport Texas Company, a Delaware corporation, owned all of the stock of the Freeport Sulphur Company, a Texas corporation, except a few qualifying shares. The directorates of the two corporations were interlocking; officers of the parent corporation occupied identical positions in the subsidiary; and common offices were occupied in New York. It also appeared that the board of the Texas corporation only passed on local operating matters and ratified ordinary contracts. The sales end of the organization was operated from New York and the board had no control over it. The fixing and payment of salaries, the amount of …