Legal Opinion
Sheehan v. Municipal Light & Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided July 24, 1945No. 293PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff1 appeals from a judgment dismissing her complaint upon the merits in a representative action brought on behalf of a corporate defendant which we shall call “Longacre,” and of which she asserts that a second corporate defendant, which we shall call “Inter-City,” held all the shares. The plaintiff claims as a shareholder in “Inter-City,” and the action is one of the kind which has come to be known as “double derivative.” It is based upon the premise that a judgment taken against “Longacre” in the District Court for the Southern District of New York in the…
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