Legal Opinion
Jacobson v. General Motors Corporation
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided February 2, 1938PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNOX, District Judge.
Two stockholders’ suits have been brought by plaintiffs, attacking the so-called bonus plan and other methods of supplemental compensation used by General Motors from March, 1918, to 1936, as ultra vires, fraudulent, and ' illegal. The Winkelman action was originally brought in the Supreme Court of New York county, removed, and consolidated with the Jacobson case, already pending here.
Invoking Equity Rule 27, 28 U.S.C.A, following section 723, defendants seek to strike from the complaints the allegations referring to acts prior to May 27, 1929, on the ground that that is…
2Cases cited25 opinions
- Hawes v. OaklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Davis & Farnum Manufacturing Co. v. Los AngelesSupreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Venner v. Great Northern Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1908
- Home Fire Insurance v. BarberNebraska Supreme Court · 1903
- Dimpfell v. Ohio & Mississippi Railway Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
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3Cited by8 opinions
- Winkelman v. General Motors CorporationDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1942
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- Gottesman v. General Motors Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1961
- Shultz v. Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co.District Court, W.D. New York · 1939
- Baird v. DassauDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1940
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