Legal Opinion
Laird v. United Shipyards, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 13, 1947No. 261, Docket 20575PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
Appellant Laird, and another who took no active part in the trial below and who has not appealed, brought this suit on September 18, 1940 in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Federal jurisdiction resting entirely upon diversity is clear and unquestioned. The plaintiffs, who will hereinafter be called the appellant, sued in their derivative right as stockholders of defendant United Shipyards, Inc., to recover promoter’s secret profits alleged to have been made by the defendants Rogers and Powell, with the connivance of some or all of the other…
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