Brown v. Duluth, M. & N. Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota
In Equity. Bill by William S. Brown against the Duluth, Missabe & Northern Railway Company and others to enforce corporate rights and restrain the corporation from acts alleged to be ultra vires. Injunction denied, and restraining order dissolved.
1Opinion of the Court
NELSON, District Judge.
The original bill was filed January 23, 1893, and a restraining order was granted, and an order to show cause why a preliminary injunction should not issue. On the return day of the order, February 10, 1893, an amended bill was filed. The purpose of the original and amended bill is to enforce corporate rights, and to restrain the corporation from ultra vires acts, and the specific relief asked is for an accounting, and for a decree restraining the directors,, and each of them, and the said other defendants, from voting upon and exercising the rights of stockholders by…
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