Legal Opinion

Yoakam v. Providence Biltmore Hotel Co.

District Court, D. Rhode Island

Decided August 12, 1929No. 312PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LETTS, District Judge.

This action was brought to restrain the respondent corporation from putting into effect a plan of corporate reorganization, embodied in several amendments to its charter, and from assuming and paying the expenses of the reorganization committee.

The ease also involves a consideration of how far the Legislature of the state of Delaware may, under the reserved power in its General Corporation Law in effect when the respondent was incorporated, confer by subsequent enactment upon the majority of stockholders the power to adopt charter amendments whieh will be binding upon a…

2Cases cited23 opinions

  1. Boyd's Lessee v. GravesSupreme Court of the United States · 1819
  2. Providence Bank v. BillingsSupreme Court of the United States · 1830
  3. Greenwood v. Freight Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1882
  4. Erie Railroad v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
  5. Delaware & Hudson Co. v. Albany & Susquehanna RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1909

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Fox v. Johnson & Wimsatt, Inc.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1942
  2. Shanik v. White Sewing Machine CorporationSupreme Court of Delaware · 1941
  3. Goldman v. Postal Telegraph, Inc.District Court, D. Delaware · 1943
  4. Schaad v. Hotel Easton Co.Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1952
  5. McNulty v. W.& J.SloaneNew York Supreme Court · 1945

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