Legal Opinion
Eshleman v. Keenan
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided July 7, 1937PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor:
In the former opinion, after the duty of Keenan, Brewer and Marvin to account was declared, the following language was used:
“At the outset of this opinion reasons were stated why the defense of ratification would not be allowed in bar of the bill. Whether ratification and therefore approval by a majority of the stockholders, while not sufficient to bar a remedy to the minority, may nevertheless be shown for the purpose of confining the relief of the decree to the dissentients only, is a question which the proposed supplement to the answer did not present. If the company was…
2Cases cited14 opinions
- Cantor v. SachsCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1932
- Brown v. DeYoungIllinois Supreme Court · 1897
- Matthews v. Headley Chocolate Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1917
- Baillie v. Columbia Gold Mining Co.Oregon Supreme Court · 1917
- Voorhees v. MasonIllinois Supreme Court · 1910
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3Cited by26 opinions
- Keenan v. EshlemanSupreme Court of Delaware · 1938
- Kroese v. General Steel Castings CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1950
- Central Ry. Signal Co. v. LongdenCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1952
- Fed. Sec. L. Rep. P 95,807 in Re the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Railroad Company Securities and Antitrust Litigation, Appeal of Objector Irving Trust Company, as TrusteeCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1976
- Meyerson v. El Paso Natural Gas CompanyCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1967
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