Legal Opinion
Spielberger v. Textron Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 14, 1949No. 30, Docket 21113PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FRANK, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, a resident of New York and a stockholder of the appellee Textron Incorporated, which is a corporation organized under the laws of Rhode Island, brought a derivative stockholders’ action against the corporation and its President, Royal Little, a resident of Rhode Island, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The summons was served in New York upon Robert E. Thurber, the secretary of the corporation, on January 27, 1948. Little has never been served. The corporation moved to vacate the service and, while that motion-was…
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