Legal Opinion
Price v. Gurney
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided February 5, 1945No. 410PublishedCited by 157 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
The Western Tool & Manufacturing Co. is an Ohio corporation. It has outstanding some 1,100 shares of stock and also bonds which total in principal amount $73,000 with large arrearages of interest. Some twenty years ago, following a default in payment of interest on the bonds, more than 50 per cent of the shares of stock were placed in a voting trust, the voting trustees being designated by the bondholders. The bonds were deposited with a bondholders’ committee. The voting trustees were members of the bondholders’ committee; and some of the voting trustees were also directors and officers of…
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