Legal Opinion

General Inv. Co. v. Bethlehem Steel Corp.

District Court, D. New Jersey

Decided February 6, 1918PublishedCited by 4 opinions

In Equity. Bill by the General Investment Company against the Bethlehem Steel Corporation and others. On petition for preliminary injunction.

1Opinion of the Court

RELESTAB, District Judge.

The complainant, a Maine corporation, is a holder of common stock of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, a New Jersey corporation. The general purposes of the bill, as stated by complainant’s counsel, are:

“To enjoin the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. from guaranteeing the bonds and obligations of other corporations and mortgaging its property to secure such guaranties and the debts of other corporations, on the ground that the corporation has no authority to do the things complained of; .also, to declare invalid the guaranty by the defendant Bethlehem Steel Corporation of…

2Cases cited20 opinions

  1. Hawes v. OaklandSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  2. United Copper Securities Co. v. Amalgamated Copper Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
  3. Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Louisville Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1899
  4. Pennsylvania Railroad v. St. Louis, Alton & Terre Haute RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
  5. Davis v. Old Colony RailroadMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1881

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3Cited by4 opinions

  1. In re John B. Rose Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1921
  2. Greene County Nat. Farm Loan Ass'n v. Federal Land BankDistrict Court, W.D. Kentucky · 1944
  3. Eckhout v. Guardian National Bank of CommerceDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1934
  4. In Re BattaniDistrict Court, E.D. Michigan · 1934

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