Duane v. Merchants Legal Stamp Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, finally filed in the Supreme Judicial Court in its amended form on September 21, 1917, by a stockholder of the Merchants Legal Stamp Company, a business corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, containing the allegations described in the opinion and praying for the following relief: "1. That the individual defendants be enjoined from continuing to manage the affairs and conduct the business of the stamp company in violation of St. 1908, c.…
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Bill in equity, finally filed in the Supreme Judicial Court in its amended form on September 21, 1917, by a stockholder of the Merchants Legal Stamp Company, a business corporation organized under the laws of this Commonwealth, containing the allegations described in the opinion and praying for the following relief: "1. That the individual defendants be enjoined from continuing to manage the affairs and conduct the business of the stamp company in violation of St. 1908, c. 454, or anyother law or laws of this Commonwealth, and from imposing or enforcing in the management of its business or in…
1Opinion of the CourtRtjgg, C. J.
For convenience the individual and corporate plaintiffs will be referred to in this opinion as the plaintiff, the defendant corporation as the Stamp Company, and the other defendants as the directors.' The plaintiff alleges that he was a stockholder in the Stamp Company when it was incorporated, and still continues to be a stockholder. A suit between the same parties was considered in 227 Mass. 466. The kind of business of the Stamp Company and the means by which it was conducted there are narrated at length and need not here be repeated. It is enough to say that, according to the allegations…
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