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Amendment Of Corporate Charters, F. L. W.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Joint Adventure - Relationship Distinguished From That Of Employer-Employee, Wayne E. Babler

Michigan Law Review

The taxpayer had an arrangement whereby he planned to furnish the Russian Government with shrapnel shells by farming out the various stages of manufacture to several different companies. A Canadian corporation, also having a contract for furnishing shrapnel, made arrangements with the taxpayer whereby the latter cancelled his contract and went in with the Canadian corporation. Under this arrangement the taxpayer was to furnish his manufacturing arrangement, plans, tools, gauges, drawings, etc., and to get fifteen per cent of the profits on the present contract and five per cent of the profits on future contracts of a similar nature. An …

Corporations - Alteration Of Charter Under Reserved Power - Change In Remedy To Enforce Stockholders' Liability, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

The constitution of Maryland of I 867 provided that owners of bank stock should be liable for debts of the corporation to an extent equal to the value of the stock owned by them. The bank in which the defendants owned stock was organized under legislation of 1870 containing the provision, "this act and every part of it may be altered from time to time, or repealed by the legislature." The Maryland court held that, while the constitution provided no remedy, the right was conferred on each creditor in his individual capacity to be enforced by separate suits against those …

Specific Performance Of Contracts For The Sale Of Stock In West Virginia, V. V. C.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Corporations - Charter Amendments - Delaware Dilemma, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

It may be conceded that a corporate charter is a contract having a threefold aspect as to the combinations of parties thereto, and that this contract, as between the corporation and the state, may be changed by the state without conflict with the Federal Constitution, providing the state has reserved a power to change. It still is an ever present problem, however, as to how far the state may affect the contracts of stockholders, either inter se or with the corporation. This problem is particularly a live one in Delaware, both because of the recent Keller case and the large …

Corporations - Amendment Of Charter - Right To Redemption Of Preferred Stock., Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff owned 100 shares of preferred stock of defendant corporation, the certificates for which, and the articles of incorporation, provided for redemption on a· given date. Subsequent to plaintiff's becoming a stockholder but prior to the redemption date of his stock, a statute was passed allowing the majority of voting shareholders of a corporation to amend its articles "without limitation." Pursuant thereto the date for redemption of plaintiff's stock was postponed twenty-five years. Under the amended articles defendant refused plaintiff's tender of the stock and demand of payment on the original redemption date. In an action against the corporation, held …

Injunctions--Covenant Of Employee Not To Compete--Validity Of Extensive Territorial Restrictions--Divisibility, Rudolph E. Hagberg

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Corporations-Contracts By Foreign Corporations Before Compliance With Statutes Governing Admission-Validity

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Corporations-Trust Indenture-Notice To Security Holders Of Contents Of Indenture

Michigan Law Review

Ever since corporate bonds made their appearance more than a century ago, there has been a steady increase in difficult problems relating thereto. Not the least interesting of these problems pertains to the matter of notice to holders of the bonds and other securities of the contents of the indenture under which they are generally issued. The question becomes acute when one of these bondholders starts suit in law or in equity, and is met by the proposition that his right to so sue is limited by the trust indenture. There are two aspects to the matter, and it is …

Corporations-Creditors' Right To Avoid Contract Between Holding And Subsidiary Corporations

Michigan Law Review

In an ancillary proceeding, the receiver of a subsidiary corporation sought inter alia to recover from the parent corporation, which had owned for about thirteen years all of the stock of the subsidiary except shares necessary to qualify directors, fees paid under contracts during that period for management and engineering services. Held, the court will read just the consideration paid for these services and permit recovery against the parent corporation for the excess. Grand Rapids Trust Co. v. United Light and Power Co., (D. C. W. D. Mich. 1931) 7 F. Supp. 511.

Corporations - Identity As Basis For Enforcing Contract Of Predecessor Against Successor - Fraud

Michigan Law Review

The stockholders and officers of the Old South Engraving Company, wishing to escape a contract whereby that corporation was bound to hire only union labor, organized the Old South Photoengraving Corporation which purchased the business of the Engraving Company, giving therefor 9,000 of the issue of 12,000 no-par shares and issuing the rest to the stockholders of the Engraving Company in proportion to their holdings therein. It was announced that the Engraving Company would cease operating Saturday, June 4, and employees were given due notice. On Monday, June 6, the new company began operating at the same location with non-union …

Corporations - Rescission Of Contract Procured Through Fraud

Michigan Law Review

P purchased shares of stock in S Company through the fraud and misrepresentation of his agents in collusion with the agents of the S Company. Upon discovery of the fraud, P tendered back a number of shares equal to the number received by himself and his innocent associates. In the meantime, P had resold part of the shares at a higher price. Held, P must also tender the profit resulting from the resale and subsequent purchase of equivalent shares in a fallen market, together with any dividends paid on stock and interest from date of payment. Marr v. Tumulty …

Review: A Textbook On Law And Business, J. Wayne Ley

Michigan Law Review

A Book Review on A TEXTBOOK ON LAW AND BUSINESS By William H. Spencer

Corporations-Power To Delegate Management For Long Period

Michigan Law Review

The corporate parties contracted that in consideration of certain commissions to be paid to the plaintiff, the defendant insurance company should delegate to the plaintiff corporation complete and exclusive control and management of its entire business for a period of twenty years. In an action to recover commissions, held, that the contract was void on the ground of public policy, and that there could be no recovery. Sherman & Ellis, Inc., v. Indiana Mutual Casualty Company (C. C. A. 7th Cir.) 41 F.(2d) 588.

The Application Of The Doctrine Of Swift V. Tyson Since 1900, H. Parker Sharp, Joseph B. Brennan

Indiana Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Corporations-Debts In Excess Of Statuatory Limit

Michigan Law Review

Business Corporations generally have the power to borrow money for the purpose of their ordinary business, and to give the customary evidence of the debt and security therefor. Such power can be limited only by statute or by the charter. Statutes frequently provide that corporations should not incur indebtedness in excess of some particular stated amount, usually a certain proportion of the capital stock. A recent Nebraska case allowed the lender full recovery from the guarantor of corporate notes given in exchange for a loan in excess of the statutory limit, holding that excessive indebtedness does not necessarily invalidate contract …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

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Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Admiralty - Workmen's Compensation - Is a Hydroplane a Vessel? - Claimant was employed in the care and management of a hydroplane which was moored in navigable waters. The hydroplane began to drag anchor and drift toward the beach, where it was in danger of being wrecked. Claimant waded into the water and was struck by the propeller. Held, claimant is not entitled to compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Law, since a hydroplane while on navigable waters is a vessel, and therefore the jurisdiction of the admiralty excludes that of the State Industrial Commission. Reinhardt v. Newport Flying Service Corp. …

Recent Important Decisions, Michigan Law Review

Michigan Law Review

Carriers of Passengers - Duty to Stop at Station to Permit Passenger to Alight-Contributory Negligence of Passenger Plaintiff's intestate was riding in the front end of a crowded vestibule car in the coach next to the tender of the eengine. When the train stopped at his station he tried to leave by the front end, but found the door from the vestibule closed. As he did not know how to open it, or was unwilling to be carried by his station, he stepped from his platform to the bumper of the tender and tried to follow it to the side …

The Business Situs Of Credits, Thomas Reed Powell

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Code Civil Suisse Y Compris Le Code Fédéral Des Obligations, Virgile Rossel

Civil Codes (1800-1923)

Édition annotée renfermant en outre les complémentaires (loi féd. du 25 Juin 1891, conventions internationales, ordonnances et arrêtés des autorités fédérales, etc.), ainsi que des notes explicatives, de la jurisprudence, la conférence des articles, des renvois aux textes correspondants des Codes français et allemands, aux messages du Conseil fédéral, a l"Expose des motifs et au Bulletin sténographique des Chambres fédérales, etc.

3a. édition, revue et considérablement augmentée.

Corporations--Promoters--Individual Liability On Contracts In Behalf Of Corporation, S. C. M.

West Virginia Law Review

No abstract provided.

Note And Comment, Gordon W. Stoner, Newton K. Fox, Walle W. Merritt, Albert E. Meder

Michigan Law Review

The Power of a Court to Compel a jury to Render its Verdict in Accordance with a Peremptory Instruction; The Liability of Municipal Corporations in the Discharge of Public or Governmental Duties and of Private or Corporate Duties; Some views of the Nature and Effect of Corporateness; Mitigation of Damages or Substituted Contract; Limitation of the Amount of a Carrier's Liability

Cases On The Law Of Partnership, Floyd R. Mechem, Frank L. Sage

Books

Note to First Edition [1896]: "The following collection of cases has been made primarily for use in connection with the writer's lectures on Partnership in the Law School of this University and to accompany his 'Elements of Partnership' recently published."

Note to Third Edition: "In this edition the number of cases has again [from Second Edition] been considerably increased." F.R.M. ... October 1, 1905

The Contract Of Subscription To Corporate Stock, John Fred Woodell

Historical Theses and Dissertations Collection

No abstract provided.

The Dartmouth College Case And Private Corporations: A Paper Presented By William P. Wells, Of Detroit, At The Ninth Annual Meeting, Auguest 19, 1886., William P. Wells

Books

The Dartmouth College Case and Private Corporations. Chancellor Kent, writing in 1826, thus expressed himself concerning the Dartmouth College case: "It contains one of the most full and elaborate expositions of the constitutional sanctity of contracts to be met with in any of the reports. The decision in that case did more than any other single act proceeding from the authority of the United States to throw .an impregnable barrier around all rights and franchises derived from the grant of government and to give solidity and inviolability to the literary, charitable, religious and commercial institutions of our country."