Lord v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States
New York Supreme Court
• Motion to restrain the adoption, execution and filing 'and the effectuation by the hoard -of directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society of a proposed amended charter. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the CourtMaddox, J.
The right and the power of control, unless restricted by the owner’s act or by operation of law, are elements and attributes of property, and this action involves the management and control, whether by the stockholders alone or by the policy-holders and stockholders conjunctively, of the defendant society, a stock corporation created in 1859 under and pursuant to a general law, chapter 463 of the Laws of 1853, and the amendments thereto-, “ to make insurance upon the lives of individuals, and every insurance appertaining thereto, or connected therewith; and to grant, purchase, or dispose of…
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- Shelby v. GuySupreme Court of the United States · 1826
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