In re the Election of Directors of the Newark Library Ass'n
Supreme Court of New Jersey
On petition for a summary investigation of an election for directors of the Newark Library Association, held at a general meeting of the stockholders January 4th, 1899.
1Opinion of the Court
*218The opinion of the court was delivered by
Van Syckel, J.
The Newark Library Association was chartered by an act of the legislature approved February 19th, 1847. Pamph. L., p. 69.
The sixth section of the “Act concerning corporations,” approved February 14th, 1846, enacts “ that the charter of every corporation which shall hereafter be granted by the legislature shall be subject to alteration, suspension and repeal in the discretion of the legislature.”
By the charter of the library association as passed in 1847, each stockholder has one vote for each share of the capital stock which he holds not…
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