Commonwealth v. Vandegrift
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 246, Jan. T., 1911, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1909, No. 5,073, in entering judgment for respondents in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Jerome H. Sheip et al. v. Asa W. Vandegrift et al. Quo warranto. Demurrers to respondents’ answers to information. Magill, J., found the facts to be as follows: This matter is before the court on demurrer by relators to answers filed by respondents to an information for quo warranto.
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Appeal, No. 246, Jan. T., 1911, by plaintiffs, from order of C. P. No. 1, Phila. Co., Dec. T., 1909, No. 5,073, in entering judgment for respondents in case of Commonwealth ex rel. Jerome H. Sheip et al. v. Asa W. Vandegrift et al. Quo warranto. Demurrers to respondents’ answers to information. Magill, J., found the facts to be as follows: This matter is before the court on demurrer by relators to answers filed by respondents to an information for quo warranto. The answers in question are responsive and under oath, and by the demurrers filed the statements contained therein are admitted to be…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Me. Justice Elkin,
This is a proceeding by quo warranto to test the right of respondents, or either of them, to hold the respective offices of president, vice president, secretary and treasurer, and director of a certain corporation named in the suggestion for the writ. The controversy grows out of alleged irregularities in holding the annual meeting of stockholders for the purpose of electing a board of directors. If this meeting was regularly organized in the first instance with a quorum present, and subsequently some of the shareholders for the purpose of breaking the quorum and…
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