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Specific Performance-Oral Promise To Devise In Consideration Of Personal Services, C. J. Rice
Specific Performance-Oral Promise To Devise In Consideration Of Personal Services, C. J. Rice
Michigan Law Review
Decedent orally agreed that if plaintiff would render services as housekeeper, practical muse and general business associate, he would devise and bequeath one-half of his estate to her. Decedent died without having made a will, and plaintiff sought specific performance of the agreement. Held, performance of these services did not take the oral contract out of the operation of the statute of frauds because the services were capable of measurement in money, and recovery on a quantum meriut basis was adequate. Snyder v. Warde, 151 Ohio St. 426, 86 N.E. (2d) 489 (1949).
Corporations-Validity Of By-Law Requiring Assent Of All Or Proportion Of Shareholders Greater Than Majority For Action, Alan C. Boyd
Corporations-Validity Of By-Law Requiring Assent Of All Or Proportion Of Shareholders Greater Than Majority For Action, Alan C. Boyd
Michigan Law Review
The defendants, employees of the plaintiff corporation, were discharged by the president, who was empowered under the by-laws to appoint, remove, employ and discharge, and fix the compensation of, all employees of the corporation, subject to the approval of the board of directors. A majority of the directors and the holders of a majority of the shares were in agreement that the defendants should be discharged. The defendants refused to leave the premises, took possession of certain of the corporate books and records, and otherwise interfered with the conduct of the business, claiming that their discharge was ineffective because it …