Legal Opinion
Surowitz v. Hilton Hotels Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 7, 1966No. 161PublishedCited by 375 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Black
Petitioner, Dora Surowitz, a stockholder in Hilton Hotels Corporation, brought this action in a United States District Court on behalf of herself and other stockholders charging that the officers and directors of the corporation had defrauded it of several million dollars by illegal devices and schemes designed to cheat the corporation and enrich the individual defendants. The acts charged, if true, would constitute frauds of the grossest kind against the corporation, and would be in violation of the Securities Act of 1933,1 the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,2 and the Delaware General…
2Cited by375 opinions
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