Woodruff v. Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Motion for injunction. Edward C. Woodruff filed his bill against the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company, an Iowa corporation, and Droxel, Morgan & Co., bankers in the city of New York, upon the following grounds : The defendant railroad company is a corporation of Iowa, and its railroad is situated in that State.
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Motion for injunction. Edward C. Woodruff filed his bill against the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Company, an Iowa corporation, and Droxel, Morgan & Co., bankers in the city of New York, upon the following grounds : The defendant railroad company is a corporation of Iowa, and its railroad is situated in that State. The articles of incorporation provide that the capital stock shall be $6,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each; that the affairs of the company shall be managed by a board of nine directors, and that no person shall be elected a director who is not the bona fide holder of…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
After stating the facts.] It is argued that this scheme is intended to be carried out by voting upon _ large amounts of this stock by proxy, and that the right to so vote can exist only by express statute, and that there is no such statute in Iowa. It is not, however, deemed to be necessary to examine or pass upon that claim as a ground for this motion. The election is to be held in Iowa, under the laws of that State. It is to be presumed that the officers conducting the election will be recognized and be governed by those laws. If they do not give heed to those laws as they are, or as they…
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