Legal Opinion
Brown v. Little, Brown & Co.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided October 30, 1929PublishedCited by 59 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtRugg, C.J.
This is a suit in equity by a minority holder of common and preferred stock in the defendant corporation against that corporation and its five directors. The main grounds of complaint by the plaintiff are that he is being unjustly and fraudulently deprived of all the privileges of a holder of common stock, and that the individual defendants have dealt improperly and fraudulently with certain shares of stock in the corporation acquired by it from the estate of a deceased stockholder in deprivation of personal rights of the plaintiff and in derogation of the rights of the corporation.
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2Cases cited38 opinions
- Moss v. Old Colony Trust Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1923
- Commonwealth v. RussMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1919
- New England Trust Co. v. AbbottMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1894
- Adamson v. GillilandSupreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Glover v. Waltham Laundry Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
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3Cited by59 opinions
- Donahue v. Rodd Electrotype Co. of New England, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1975
- Spiegel v. Beacon Participations, Inc.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1937
- Crimmins & Peirce Co. v. Kidder Peabody Acceptance Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1933
- State Street Trust Co. v. HallMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1942
- Winchell v. Plywood Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1949
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