Legal Opinion

Film Producers (Inc.) v. Jordan

California Supreme Court

Decided January 8, 1916No. L. A. No. 4360PublishedCited by 9 opinions

APPLICATION for a Writ of Mandate directed to the Secretary of State of the State of California. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court. Frank C. Hill, Lynden Bowring, and George S. Hupp, for Petitioners.

1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.

Mandate to the Secretary of State, who has refused to file petitioners’ articles of incorporation, seeking a judgment compelling him to do so.

The secretary’s refusal is based upon his conviction that the articles of incorporation do violence to the laws of the state in the following particulars: The capital stock of this corporation is one million dollars, divided into fifty thousand shares of common stock of the par value of one dollar each, and forty-seven thousand five hundred shares of preferred stock of the par value of twenty .dollars each. Our law (Civ. Code, sec. 290, subd. 6) permits…

2Cited by9 opinions

  1. Commonwealth Acceptance Corp. v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1926
  2. Westlake Park Investment Co. v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1926
  3. Del Monte Light & Power Co. v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1925
  4. Barnett Iron Works, Inc. v. HarmonMontana Supreme Court · 1930
  5. Land Development Co. v. JordanCalifornia Supreme Court · 1926

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