Mobile Land Improvement Co. v. Gass
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon Thomas H. Smith. This action was commenced by the Mobile Land Improvement Company by a bill in Chancery against- H. B. Gass, and was subsequently amended as to make several parties, who purchased the land involved in this suit from him, defendants.
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Appeal from the Chancery Court of Mobile. Heard before the Hon Thomas H. Smith. This action was commenced by the Mobile Land Improvement Company by a bill in Chancery against- H. B. Gass, and was subsequently amended as to make several parties, who purchased the land involved in this suit from him, defendants. The bill alleged that the complainant was a corporation under the laws of Alabama, and that the defendant Gass ayus the secretary and treasurer of the company and also a director from the 16th day of April, 1889, to the 30th day of April, 1900; that some of. the directors of the company…
1Opinion of the CourtAnderson, J.
While the deeds sought to be can-celled purport to have been authorized by a resolution passed at a meeting in Mobile in the year 1891, it is an undisputed fact, that they were made under and pursuant to a resolution of a bare quorum of directors, at a meeting held at Flint, Michigan in the year' 1896. The evidence also discloses the fact, that at said meeting, the presence of and the participation therein by the respondent, Gass, was necessary to constitute a quorum and to give it legal vitality, and that the vote of Gass secured the passage of the resolution.
The directors of a corporation,…
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- Greenleaf v. QueenSupreme Court of the United States · 1828
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