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Stockholder Votes Motivated By Adverse Interest: The Attack And The Defense, Earl Sneed May 1960

Stockholder Votes Motivated By Adverse Interest: The Attack And The Defense, Earl Sneed

Michigan Law Review

It is the purpose of this article to study stockholder votes motivated by adverse interest from the standpoint of the attack and the defense. First, the remedies available to the complaining minority are examined. Then follows a study of the indicia of adverse interest in specific shareholder actions. Knowledge of the nature and import of these indicia should enable the careful lawyer to avoid or defeat the charge that unconscionable adverse interest vitiated the result of a stockholder vote.


Trust Receipts Feb 1933

Trust Receipts

Michigan Law Review

That the conflict between the convenience of business and the rigidity of the law continually brings about modifications and expansions of legal doctrine is nowhere better illustrated than in the field of commercial financing. A merchant wishes to purchase goods; he has no funds or available unencumbered property for security; his general credit is too poor to warrant either the manufacturer or a bank in making advances without security. How can the manufacturer give the merchant possession and power of sale of the goods and yet retain a legal hold on them or their proceeds as security for the payment …