Legal Opinion
Thomas P. Knapp v. Bankers Securities Corporation Appeal of Bankers Securities Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided March 15, 1956No. 11613PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS, Circuit Judge.
The question which this appeal presents is whether a shareholders’ action against the corporation and its directors to compel the declaration of dividends is a suit to enforce a secondary or derivative right on the part of the shareholders within the meaning of the Pennsylvania security for costs statute. 1
The present action was brought in the district court for the eastern district of Pennsylvania by shareholders, New York residents, against the Bankers Securities Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, and its directors, charging that Albert M. Greenfield, one of the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- Kroese v. General Steel Castings CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
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