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Corporations-Officers And Directors-Fiduciary Duty Of Officer Purchasing Stock From Shareholder, Walter H. Weiner
Corporations-Officers And Directors-Fiduciary Duty Of Officer Purchasing Stock From Shareholder, Walter H. Weiner
Michigan Law Review
Defendant, president of a corporation acquired stock owned by plaintiff and others by falsely representing that the corporation had been sold. After enhancing the value of this stock, defendant sold it. Plaintiff brought suit for fraudulent conversion and the trial court directed a verdict for the defendant. On appeal, held, reversed. An officer negotiating with a shareholder for the purchase of shares must act with scrupulous trust and confidence, and unless the officer acts with the utmost fairness the wronged shareholder may invoke the proper remedy. Blazer v. Black, (10th Cir. 1952) 196 F. (2d) 139.
Corporations-Securities Exchange Act Of 1934-Equitable Principles As A Bar To Short Swing Recovery Under Section 16(B), Edward D. Goldstein S. Ed.
Corporations-Securities Exchange Act Of 1934-Equitable Principles As A Bar To Short Swing Recovery Under Section 16(B), Edward D. Goldstein S. Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff corporation, after receiving authority from the Corporation Commissioner of California, gave to its key employees including defendants ( who were officers of the corporation) options to purchase certain stock of the plaintiff. The plan originated with the president of the corporation and the agreement took place at a time when the stock was unlisted. At no time subsequent to the stock being listed on a stock exchange did the plaintiff advise defendants of the short swing-requirements that arose from listing. Plaintiff's purpose in granting the option was to retain the services of its key employees and to induce these …
Loss: Securities Regulation, Arthur H. Dean
Loss: Securities Regulation, Arthur H. Dean
Michigan Law Review
A Review of SECURITIES REGULATION. By Louis Loss.
Corporations-Dividends-Majority Of The Board Of Directors As Indispensable Parties In A Suit To Compel The Declaration Of Corporate Dividends, James W. Callison
Corporations-Dividends-Majority Of The Board Of Directors As Indispensable Parties In A Suit To Compel The Declaration Of Corporate Dividends, James W. Callison
Michigan Law Review
A minority group of stockholders brought an action to compel a declaration of dividends on common stock, naming as defendants the Continental Mills company, four of the five directors of the corporation, and a majority stockholder. Effective service of process was made only on the corporation and two of the directors. The majority stockholder and the other two directors named appeared specially and obtained a dismissal of the action as to them. The two directors properly served then moved to dismiss the action for failure to include a majority of the board of directors as parties. Held, a majority …
Corporations--Shareholders-Effect On Voting Trust Agreement Of Inability To Transfer Shares To The Voting Trustees, Peter Van Domelen
Corporations--Shareholders-Effect On Voting Trust Agreement Of Inability To Transfer Shares To The Voting Trustees, Peter Van Domelen
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff filed a petition in equity attacking his removal as a director and president of the defendant corporation on the grounds that such removal was brought about through the exercise of an alleged invalid voting trust agreement The plaintiff and another shareholder, each owning fifty per cent of the stock in the defendant corporation, had entered into a voting trust agreement by which they appointed themselves and a third party as voting trustees. At the time the trust agreement was executed, all of the stock was on deposit with an escrow agent subject to an existing escrow contract. Plaintiff challenged …
Personal Property-Tenancy By The Entirety In United States Series "E" Savings Bonds, William E. Beringer
Personal Property-Tenancy By The Entirety In United States Series "E" Savings Bonds, William E. Beringer
Michigan Law Review
A trustee in bankruptcy petitioned the referee to order a bank to tum over certain United States Series ''E" Savings Bonds as assets of the bankrupt's estate. The bonds were payable to the bankrupt "or" his wife and had been pledged to the bank by the bankrupt, with his wife's consent, as collateral for a personal loan. The referee denied the petition. On appeal, held, affirmed. Since the bonds were payable to persons who were husband and wife, a tenancy by the entirety was created, with each tenant holding an interest in the whole of the bond property. Neither …
Corporations-Majority Shareholder's Fraud In The Purchase Of Stock, Thomas P. Segerson S.Ed.
Corporations-Majority Shareholder's Fraud In The Purchase Of Stock, Thomas P. Segerson S.Ed.
Michigan Law Review
Whether or not there has been fraud in the purchase of property, due to either affirmative statements or mere non-disclosure, may well depend upon the relation of the purchaser to the vendor. The recent case of Speed v. Transamerica Corporation presents two questions relative to this problem in the purchase of corporation shares: first, whether the price quoted in an offer to purchase can ever be the basis of an action for fraud and deceit; and second, whether the majority shareholder of a corporation occupies a fiduciary relation to minority shareholders in the purchase of their stock. Defendant was the …
Corporations-Dissolution-Payment Of "Accrued Unpaid Dividends" To Preferred Shareholders From Capital, Frank M. Bowen, Jr.
Corporations-Dissolution-Payment Of "Accrued Unpaid Dividends" To Preferred Shareholders From Capital, Frank M. Bowen, Jr.
Michigan Law Review
The Big Bend Land Company was in the process of liquidation. The articles of incorporation provided for preferred stock which "in the event of any liquidation . . . " was " . . . entitled to be paid in full the par value thereof, and all accrued unpaid dividends thereon before any sum shall be paid to or any assets distributed among . . ." the common stock. No dividends had ever been declared or paid, nor had there ever been any surplus profits. After discharging all corporate liabilities, including payment of the par value of the preferred stock, …
Corporations-Shareholders-Right To Bring Personal Action After Dissolution Of Corporation, Harry T. Baumann
Corporations-Shareholders-Right To Bring Personal Action After Dissolution Of Corporation, Harry T. Baumann
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff stockholder brought a personal action against the president and majority stockholder for fraudulent conversion of money and property of a corporation dissolved prior to the start of plaintiff's suit. A statute provided that a dissolved corporation could sue to recover on a corporate right of action. Defendant's demurrer was sustained. On appeal, held, affirmed. An action to enforce corporate injuries cannot be maintained by a stockholder in his own name, even though the corporation has been dissolved. Ruplinger v. Ruplinger, (Neb. 1951) 48 N.W. (2d) 73.
Taxing Distributions Pursuant To Corporate Reorganizations, William M. Emery
Taxing Distributions Pursuant To Corporate Reorganizations, William M. Emery
Michigan Law Review
"Distributions" implies that we are concerned with the tax problems of the stockholder rather than those of the corporation. And while one corporation may be the stockholder of another, my emphasis will be primarily upon stockholders who are individuals, including, of course, trusts and estates who are taxed as individuals.
Federal Procedure-Jurisdiction-Determination Of Amount In Controversy In Class Actions Under Federal Rule 23, James W. Callison
Federal Procedure-Jurisdiction-Determination Of Amount In Controversy In Class Actions Under Federal Rule 23, James W. Callison
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff owned 50 shares of common stock valued at $950. She brought an action in behalf of herself and all other stockholders to enjoin a sale of unissued stock by the corporation to its president, claiming a violation of her preemptive right. The district court ruled on the merits. On appeal, held, the plaintiff's interest was but a small fraction of the $3,000 required to invoke the jurisdiction of the federal courts. Although the action was representative, the claims of other stockholders in a like situation could not be cumulated. Ames v. Mengel Co., (2d Cir. 1951) 190 …
Some Latter Day Developments In The Taxation Of Liquidating Distributions: Is The Cop Still On The Beat?, Willard H. Pedrick
Some Latter Day Developments In The Taxation Of Liquidating Distributions: Is The Cop Still On The Beat?, Willard H. Pedrick
Michigan Law Review
Redemption and salvation are doctrinal terms suggestive of the enthusiasm of the camp meeting. It is altogether fitting that these terms be used in connection with the taxation of corporate liquidating distributions. Through redemption of his stock the shareholder may find this world's nearest approach to fiscal salvation-taxation of his receipts on a capital-gains basis. To say the shareholder's enthusiasm for capital-gains treatment approaches a religious zeal is to underestimate the matter. Nor is it difficult to understand his attitude. If corporate earnings and profits, subjected at the outset to a relatively Hat but heavy corporate income tax, are paid …
Employee Stock Options, Reece A. Gardner
Employee Stock Options, Reece A. Gardner
Michigan Law Review
The taxation to an employee of the difference between the fair market value of a share of stock transferred to him by a corporate employer, pursuant to the employee's exercise of an option to acquire it at a price below the value of the share, has for years been a matter of dispute between taxpayers and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. This dispute has involved not merely, as in the case of many of the hardy tax perennials such as reasonableness of compensation, a question as to the application of facts to a well-defined principle of law, but rather a …
Corporations-Securities Exchange Act Of 1934--Measure Of Shortswing Profits Under Section 16(B), Harry T. Baumann
Corporations-Securities Exchange Act Of 1934--Measure Of Shortswing Profits Under Section 16(B), Harry T. Baumann
Michigan Law Review
Plaintiff stockholder brought a derivative action against the defendant officer for profits made in violation of section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 on the purchase and sale, within six months, of securities issued by the corporation under an "incentive" option agreement. The contract provided that on or after the first accrual date, until a fixed termination date, a stated number of shares could be purchased at a set price; the same privilege accrued with the identical termination date in each of the next two years. There was no dispute of fact; the question thus centered on the …