Legal Opinion
Attorney General ex rel. Dusenbury v. Looker
Michigan Supreme Court
Decided January 25, 1897PublishedCited by 20 opinions
Quo warranto by the Attorney General, on the relation of Joseph W. and Will J. Dusenbury, against Oscar R. Looker and others, to determine the right of .respondents to hold the offices of. members of the board of directors of the Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is a proceeding brought to test the validity of the minority of stockholders law.
The Michigan Mutual Life Insurance Company was organized-July 3, 1870, under a general law for the incor*499poration of life-insurance companies, approved March. 30, 1869. 1 How. Stat. chap. 131. Section 1 of that act provides, among other things, that—
“Any number of persons, not less than 13, may associate together and form an incorporated company, for the purpose of making insurance upon the lives of individuals, and every insurance pertaining thereto, and to grant, purchase, and dispose of annuities.”'
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