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Business Organizations Law

2011

Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home

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Symposium: Fiduciary Duties In The Closely Held Business 35 Years After Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home: Foreword, René Reich-Graefe Jan 2011

Symposium: Fiduciary Duties In The Closely Held Business 35 Years After Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home: Foreword, René Reich-Graefe

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On October 15, 2010—exactly fifty-nine years to the day after the opening of the original nursing home operation in 1951 which formed the core business asset of the closely held Springside Nursing Home, Inc. corporation—the Western New England University School of Law and School of Business jointly hosted their 2010 Academic Conference on “Fiduciary Duties in the Closely Held Business 35 Years after Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home.” As with installments from prior years, the Conference was sponsored by the Western New England University Law and Business Center for Advancing Entrepreneurship. This Article examines the case of Wilkes v. Springside …


Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home, Inc.:The Backstory, Eric J. Gouvin Jan 2011

Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home, Inc.:The Backstory, Eric J. Gouvin

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As it appears in most casebooks, the Wilkes v. Springside Nursing Home, Inc. case tells the story of a falling-out among the shareholders in a closely-held corporation and the resulting freeze-out of one of the owners, Mr. Stanley Wilkes. The opinion indicates that the heart of the dispute arose out of Mr. Wilkes’s refusal to allow the sale of a piece of corporate property (the “Annex” at 793 North Street) to one of the other shareholders, Dr. Quinn, at a discount. In real life, that transaction did indeed cause a significant rift in the shareholders’ relationship, but, as this article …


Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home, Inc.: A Historical Perspective, Mark J. Loewenstein Jan 2011

Wilkes V. Springside Nursing Home, Inc.: A Historical Perspective, Mark J. Loewenstein

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