Legal Opinion

Raynolds v. Diamond Mills Paper Co.

New Jersey Court of Chancery

Decided May 11, 1905PublishedCited by 15 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Stevenson, Y. C.

(orally).

The bill is filed to secure two objects: One of these objects is to secure for all the stockholders of the defendant corporation, individually and severally, the benefit of a dividend, a distribution to be made to them severally and respectively of at least a portion of the accumulated profits of the corporate business. This remedy is one which is sought on behalf of each stockholder as an individual and the natural defendant in the proceeding is the corporation, the stockholders collectively, taken as a body, engaged not in individual pursuits, but in the pursuit of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Lillard v. Oil, Paint & Drug Co.New Jersey Court of Chancery · 1903
  2. Hayes v. PiersonSupreme Court of New Jersey · 1899

3Cited by15 opinions

  1. Cahall v. LoflandCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1921
  2. Atherton v. EmersonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1908
  3. Union & New Haven Trust Co. v. WatrousSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1929
  4. Finley v. Massachusetts Mut. Life Ins. Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1931
  5. Wilson v. American Ice Co.District Court, D. New Jersey · 1913

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