Legal Opinion
New York Trust Co. v. Island Oil & Transport Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided June 24, 1929No. 273PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The Island Oil & Transportation Corporation, not being permitted under tbe Mexican law to own or operate oil-bearing lands within 50 kilometers of the coast, resorted to the device of organizing a number of Mexican companies, staffed with Mexican officers. It held all tbe shares of stock in these, except such as were necessary to qualify the directors, and conducted tbe business directly, either in New York or Tampico, by means of its own officers under tbe supervision of its directors. Tbe Mexican officers of these companies bad no voice whatever in its affairs,…
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