Attorney General ex rel. Cook v. City of Detroit

The right of the attorney general to proceed in equity to enjoin an abuse of corporate power, consisting in the appropriation of corporate funds in a manner not justified by law, appears to me to rest in sound principle. The municipality and its citizens are not alone concerned in such an abuse; the corporate powers have been conferred by the *265state, with such restrictions and limitations as were thought important, some of which were imposed for the protection of the corporators against unjust and oppressive action of officials, and others from considerations of general public policy. It can…