Terry v. Eagle Lock Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Bill in Equity to set aside certain transactions of tlie respondent corporation, to compel the issuing to the petitioner of certain shares of its stock, and for an injunction, with a prayer for general relief; brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County. . The following facts were found by a committee upon the bill and the answer of the respondents.
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Bill in Equity to set aside certain transactions of tlie respondent corporation, to compel the issuing to the petitioner of certain shares of its stock, and for an injunction, with a prayer for general relief; brought to the Superior Court in Litchfield County. . The following facts were found by a committee upon the bill and the answer of the respondents. The Eagle Lock Company is a corporation located in the town of Plymouth, in this state, which was, in the year 1854, organized as a joint stock corporation under the general statute with regard to such corporations then in force, with a…
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Whatever may be said of the original power of the respondent corporation to enter into the arrangement with the Gaylord Manufacturing Company which has been stated in the finding, and whatever we might have *161thought it our duty to do had we been called upon seasonably to restrain the corporation from consummating the arrangement, we are clearly of opinion that at this late day, after the contract has been executed, after the company has been permitted for the period of five years to transact business under the arrangement with the knowledge and acquiesence of the petitioner, made large profits…
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