Legal Opinion
Summers v. Hearst
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided June 7, 1938PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LEIBELL, District Judge.
Plaintiffs in this action are stockholders of Ilearst Consolidated Publications, Inc., and sue on their own behalf and on behalf of all of the holders of Class “A” 7% Cumulative Participating shares. Jurisdiction of the Federal Court is based on diversity of citizenship and the requisite controversial sum. The venue is laid in this District under Section 51 of the Judicial Code (Title 28 U.S.C.A. § 112). The individual defendants are the directors of Hearst Consolidated Publications, Inc. The corporation itself is also made a defendant.
This is the usual stockholders’…
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