Longyear v. Hardman
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 5, 1914, to enjoin the defendants from assuming to act as the officers and directors of the Hardman Button Company, a business corporation organized under St. 1903, c. 437, §§ 7-12; and a Petition, filed on April 21, 1914, for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to refrain from exercising or assuming to exercise the functions of officers and directors of the Hard-man Button Company.
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Bill in equity, filed in the Supreme Judicial Court on March 5, 1914, to enjoin the defendants from assuming to act as the officers and directors of the Hardman Button Company, a business corporation organized under St. 1903, c. 437, §§ 7-12; and a Petition, filed on April 21, 1914, for a writ of mandamus commanding the respondents to refrain from exercising or assuming to exercise the functions of officers and directors of the Hard-man Button Company. The cases were heard together by Rugg, C. J. St. 1903, c. 437, § 18, requires that “Every director, unless the by-laws otherwise provide,…
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C. J.
These are proceedings to test the validity of the election of the defendants to certain offices in the Hardman Button Company, a Massachusetts business corporation. To this end a suit in equity and a petition for a writ of mandamus have been brought. We think mandamus affords the appropriate relief. In American Railway-Frog Co. v. Haven, 101 Mass. 398, the petition was in the name of the corporation, but the substance of the matter there adjudicated is indistinguishable from that here presented. See also J. H. Wentworth Co. v. French, 176 Mass. 442. Mandamus is recognized as the proper remedy…
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