Perkins v. Coffin
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Suit by minority stockholders to restrain the defendants from calling and holding a meeting of the stockholders of the Connecticut River Company for the purpose of passing upon the question of accepting an amendment of its charter granted by the General Assembly of this State, and from other corporate action, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Bennett, J.; the court sustained a demurrer to the complaint, and rendered judgment for the defendants,…
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Suit by minority stockholders to restrain the defendants from calling and holding a meeting of the stockholders of the Connecticut River Company for the purpose of passing upon the question of accepting an amendment of its charter granted by the General Assembly of this State, and from other corporate action, brought to and tried by the Superior Court in Hartford County, Bennett, J.; the court sustained a demurrer to the complaint, and rendered judgment for the defendants, from which the plaintiffs appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, J.
The plaintiffs, stockholders in the defendant corporation, The Connecticut River Company, seek a restraining order against it, and against its president and secretary and treasurer. It appears by the allegations of the complaint, demurred to, that the charter of the corporation, at the time the action was brought, was the resultant of an original grant made in 1824 (1 Private Laws, p. 73), and of amendments thereto, including one made in 1856 (4 Private Laws, p. 1377) and one made in 1881 (9 Special Laws, p. 68). These resolves of the General Assembly are set out in full in an exhibit annéxed…
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