Legal Opinion
Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided March 25, 1940PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:
The complainants, Harry E. Bovay and Kenyon D. Wells, are trustees in bankruptcy for Vicksburg Bridge & Terminal Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware. As such trustees, they are seeking to recover from the defendants certain specified large sums of money, amounting in the aggregate to more than $1,-250,000, which the bill alleges were illegally and improperly paid to them from the funds of that corporation; and which said sums of money, therefore, fairly and justly belong to the corporation, for the benefit of its creditors.
*6The case is before this court on a demurrer…
2Cases cited32 opinions
- Bailey v. GloverSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
- Old Dominion Copper Mining & Smelting Co. v. BigelowMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1909
- Kelley v. BoettcherCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1898
- Federal United Corp. v. HavenderSupreme Court of Delaware · 1940
- McCandless v. FurlaudSupreme Court of the United States · 1935
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3Cited by25 opinions
- Blish v. Thompson Automatic Arms Corp.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1948
- Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1944
- Collins v. BurkeSupreme Court of Delaware · 1980
- Bovay v. H. M. Byllesby & Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1943
- Meso Scale Diagnostics, LLC v. Roche Diagnostics GmbHCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 2013
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