Cowles v. Cowles Realty Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, Cowles Realty Company and others, from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the New York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of New York on the 1st day of February, 1922, granting plaintiff’s motion for an injunction pendente lite.
1Opinion of the Court
Merrell, J.:
The action is brought by the plaintiff to have declared illegal and void an attempted repeal by a majority of the stockholders of the defendant Cowles Realty Company of a by-law, being section 5 of article V of the by-laws of said company, which provided that no stockholder of the defendant company should have the right or power to pledge, sell or otherwise dispose of any shares of stock of said company, except by last will and testament, without first offering the same for sale to the defendant company at the actual price at which it was proposed to sell such stock, or at par in…
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