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Miscellaneous—Corporations—Stockholders’ Agreements, Robert Miller Jan 1957

Miscellaneous—Corporations—Stockholders’ Agreements, Robert Miller

Buffalo Law Review

Arbitration between Burkin and Katz, 1 N. Y. 2d 570, 136 N. E. 2d 862 (1956).


Comments, Various Authors Jan 1957

Comments, Various Authors

Villanova Law Review

No abstract provided.


Corporations - Ultra Vires Act - Effectiveness Of Action By Informal Meeting Of Board Of Directors, Guy Maxfield Jan 1957

Corporations - Ultra Vires Act - Effectiveness Of Action By Informal Meeting Of Board Of Directors, Guy Maxfield

Michigan Law Review

Defendant insurance company issued a policy on the life of the president of plaintiff corporation with the corporation named as beneficiary. The president, his wife in the capacity of secretary-treasurer, and son were the sole stockholders of the corporation. Pursuant to a divorce agreement between the president and his wife, a part of the insurance policy was assigned to the wife at an informal board of directors' meeting with the concurrence of the wife and son. The president died and his stock was sold to the present stockholders. The corporation then sued the insurance company to collect the full amount …


Tax Considerations In Organizing A Corporation, Marvin D. Kelner Jan 1957

Tax Considerations In Organizing A Corporation, Marvin D. Kelner

Cleveland State Law Review

It is almost impossible, and certainly impractical, to prepare a definitive checklist of incorporation procedures, which will guarantee complete safeguard for all of the "watchdog sections" of the present Internal Revenue Code and further guarantee the lowest tax burden for the corporation and its stockholders. The most that any careful lawyer can do is to apply known and foreseeable procedures, which have been tried and tested in the courts, to any particular company he is engaged in incorporating.


Corporations--Conflict Between By-Laws, Charters Or Statutes And Long Term Employment Contracts, Wayne Carroll Jan 1957

Corporations--Conflict Between By-Laws, Charters Or Statutes And Long Term Employment Contracts, Wayne Carroll

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Partnership--Rights And Liabilities As To Third Persons--Estoppel As Basis Of Liability, Henry R. Snyder Jan 1957

Partnership--Rights And Liabilities As To Third Persons--Estoppel As Basis Of Liability, Henry R. Snyder

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Ultra Vires Contracts Under Modern Corporate Legislation, Willburt D. Ham Jan 1957

Ultra Vires Contracts Under Modern Corporate Legislation, Willburt D. Ham

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.


Agency - Apparent Authority - Liability Of Corporation On Unauthorized Note Of General Manager, Thomas A. Troyer Jan 1957

Agency - Apparent Authority - Liability Of Corporation On Unauthorized Note Of General Manager, Thomas A. Troyer

Michigan Law Review

Welch, the general manager, executive vice-president, treasurer, and director of petitioner corporation, requested that respondent, a salesman employed by the corporation, loan petitioner $25,000. Respondent complied, and Welch executed and delivered to respondent a note for the amount of the loan, signed by himself as vice-president and treasurer. After Welch had appropriated the money to his own uses, respondent obtained a judgment by confession against petitioner on the note. On trial of a petition to open the judgment, held, dismissed. Welch had acted with apparent authority in giving respondent petitioner's note, respondent had reasonably relied upon this appearance in …


Corporations - Stockholder's Suit - Necessity Of Demand On Other Stockholders In Derivative Action, John C. Dowd Jan 1957

Corporations - Stockholder's Suit - Necessity Of Demand On Other Stockholders In Derivative Action, John C. Dowd

Michigan Law Review

In two related cases, a holder of common stock brought a derivative suit against the directors of his corporation claiming their illegal acts had deprived the corporation of assets. On defendants' motion to dismiss and for summary" judgment, held, judgment for the defendants. Plaintiff's failure to allege either that he had presented his claim to the stockholders at a stockholders' meeting or that a majority of the stockholders' votes were under the control of the directors defeated his action. Carroll v. New York, New Haven & Hartford R.; Glenmore v. Alpert, (D.C. Mass. 1956) 141 F. Supp. 456.