Voeller v. Neilston Warehouse Co.

We granted'certiorari in this case to review a decision of the Supreme Court of Ohio invalidating a state statute on the ground that it constituted a denial of procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment. The statute in question provided that the value placed upon his stock by a dissenting shareholder should, after six months and under 'certain circumstances, “conclusively be deemed to . be equal to” the fair cash value. The state court held that since the statute required that the demands of the dissenters be made.known only to the corporation, the majority shareholders'…