Legal Opinion · Dissent
Hood v. Guaranty Trust Co.
New York Court of Appeals
Decided January 28, 1936Published
1DissentLehman, J.
The defendants, residents of the State of New York, have been since January 31, 1931, the owners and holders of 100 shares of the capital stock of the Page Trust Company, a banking corporation organized and doing business under the laws of the State of North Carolina. The rights and obligations of the stockholders of a corporation arise from and are defined by the charter, constitution and by-laws of the corporation; and the laws of the State which creates the corporation are “ integrally and necessarily the criterion to be resorted to for the purpose of ascertaining the significance of the…
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