Colby v. Equitable Trust Co.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendants, The Equitable Trust Company of New York and another, 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 3d day of July, 1907, granting an injunction pendente Lite.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
The plaintiff, a stockholder of the Equitable Trust Company of New York, brings this action in equity on his own behalf and on behalf of all other stockholders of that corporation to enjoin its proposed merger Avith the defendant, The Mercantile Trust Company, mainly upon the ground that such merger is illegal and unfair to the plaintiff.
After the commencement of the action, upon notice, he applied for and obtained an order restraining the defendants and their officers and agents, during the pendency of the action, from taking any further steps towards* carrying out the…
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- Hinckley v. Schwarzschild & Sulzberger Co.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1905
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