Looker v. Maynard
Supreme Court of the United States
ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed August 1,1896, in the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan, by Fred A. Maynard, Attorney General of the State, at the relation of Joseph W. Dusenbury and Will J. Dusenbury, against Oscar R.-Looker, Charles A. Kent, Will S. Green, William A. Moore, Louis H. Chamberlain, William O. Colburn, Benjamin J. Conrad, John J. Mooney and Michael J. Mooney, to try the…
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ERROR TO THE SUPREME COURT OE THE STATE OF MICHIGAN. This was an information in the nature of a quo warranto, filed August 1,1896, in the Supreme Court of the State of Michigan, by Fred A. Maynard, Attorney General of the State, at the relation of Joseph W. Dusenbury and Will J. Dusenbury, against Oscar R.-Looker, Charles A. Kent, Will S. Green, William A. Moore, Louis H. Chamberlain, William O. Colburn, Benjamin J. Conrad, John J. Mooney and Michael J. Mooney, to try the rights of the defendants and of the relators respectively to the offices of members of the board of directors of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The single question in this case is whether a power, reserved by the constitution of a State to its legislature, to alter, amend or repeal future acts of .incorporation, authorizes the legislature, in order (as declared in the title of the statute of Michigan now in question) “ to secure the minority of stockholders, in corporations organized under general laws, the power of electing a representative membership in boards of directors,” to permit each stockholder to cumulate his votes upon any one or more candidates for directors.
By the decision in the leading case of Dartmouth College v.…
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