Legal Opinion
Geier v. Mercantile-Safe Deposit & Trust Co.
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 17, 1974No. [No. 17, September Term, 1974.]PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtSingley, J.
Levine, Eldridge and O’Donnell, JJ., dissent and Eldridge, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Levine and O’Donnell, JJ., concur at page 125 infra.
In May, 1970, Mercantile-Safe Deposit and Trust Company (the Mercantile) and George Stugard, trustees of the trust estate created by the will of Richard P. Ernst, received a distribution of 56,000 shares of the common stock, without par value, of The Procter & Gamble Company (the Company) as a consequence of what was characterized by the Company as a two-for-one split of its stock. Mindful of the decisions of this Court in Donaldson v.…
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- Staley v. Safe Deposit & Trust Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1947
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