Legal Opinion
Land v. Dollar
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 7, 1947No. 207PublishedCited by 1,333 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
Petitioners are present and former members of the United States Maritime Commission. Respondents are stockholders of Dollar Steamship Lines, Inc., Ltd. (Dollar of Delaware), whose corporate name was changed to American President Lines, Ltd., subsequent to the execution in 1938 of a contract out of which the present litigation arises. By 1937 Dollar of Delaware was in difficult financial straits. The problems confronting it and the various steps taken to remedy the situation need not be recapitulated here.1 It is sufficient for purposes of the various questions presented by this case to say…
2Cases cited28 opinions
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- Ex Parte State of New York, No. 1Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
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