Kanneberg v. Evangelical Creed Congregation
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Geoege Grimm, Judge. Action on contract to recover compensation for services rendered defendant. The complaint was in the usual form. The amount claimed was $8,869.25 as a balance on account for services as attorneys and counselors at law and expenses.
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Appeal from a judgment of the circuit court for Milwaukee county: Geoege Grimm, Judge. Action on contract to recover compensation for services rendered defendant. The complaint was in the usual form. The amount claimed was $8,869.25 as a balance on account for services as attorneys and counselors at law and expenses. Defendant pleaded as follows, in effect: The services were rendered individual members of the corporation in an action brought by other members, to prevent the former from, as alleged, diverting defendant’s property from the legitimate purposes of the corporation. The action of…
1Opinion of the Court
The following opinions were filed May 2, 1911:
Maeshaul, J.
The question presented for decision is this: If a corporation — by a majority of its members acting at a time and in a manner which would be binding in a matter within its corporate power — in good faith decides a subject in controversy, and a minority of members, acting in like good faith, resort to judicial proceedings against the officers and the corporation to prevent such determination from being effectuated upon the ground of its being a threatened usurpation, and the majority, in good faith believing in the integrity of their…
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- Morawetz v. Sun Insurance OfficeWisconsin Supreme Court · 1897
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