Wason v. Buzzell
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Petition, filed October 18 and amended December 17, 1901, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the officers of the Contractors Plant Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business in Boston, commanding the respondents Buzzell and Buffum to refrain from attempting to act as directors of that corporation, and commanding the respondents Cross, Gilbreth and Webber to…
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Petition, filed October 18 and amended December 17, 1901, for a writ of mandamus addressed to the officers of the Contractors Plant Company, a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business in Boston, commanding the respondents Buzzell and Buffum to refrain from attempting to act as directors of that corporation, and commanding the respondents Cross, Gilbreth and Webber to recognize and receive the petitioners as directors, and to act with them as such in the business of the corporation. The…
1Opinion of the CourtHammond, J.
The petitioners allege that they are two of five directors of a corporation organized under the laws of the State of Maine, having an office in Portland in that State, authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and having its usual place of business here in Boston; and they bring this petition against the corporation, the three remaining directors and two other persons, for a writ of mandamus commanding these three directors to recognize and act with the petitioners as *339directors and commanding the other respondents to refrain from attempting to act as directors. All the individual…
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- Josephson v. McGuireDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1954
- Andrews v. Mines Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1910
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