Edwards v. Bay State Gas Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Delaware
This is a suit in equity by Jacob Edwards and others, as stockholders, against the Bay State Gas Company of Delaware. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
This suit is brought by the several plaintiffs. named, on behalf of themselves and of all other stockholders of the defendant corporation who may desire to join therein and contribute, to the expense thereof. The sole defendant is the Bay State Gas Company of Delaware. In great part, if not wholly, the subjects of complaint are not wrongs committed by the corporation, but frauds' or breaches of duty perpetrated against it by its officers; yet none of the persons participating in the wrongful acts complained of have been made parties to the proceeding, and the anomaly…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weir v. Bay State Gas Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Delaware · 1898
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- Miller v. American Telephone & Telegraph CompanyDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1975
- Harden v. Eastern States Public Service Co.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1923
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