 | 1878 - 560 страница
...act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers,...sanctions and are as inviolable as in other cases. Tow authoritative adjudications throw a strong light from opposite directions upon this subject. We... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1878 - 858 страница
...act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers,...rights of property of corporations, in such cases, are surrojunded by the. same sanctions and are as inviolable as in other cases. Two authoritative adjudications... | |
 | 1879 - 556 страница
...act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong can not be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers,...sanctions and are as inviolable as in other cases. (6 Keporter, 321.) Banking — Bank Acting as Collecting Agent — Liability for Negligence — Usaye... | |
 | Virginia. Railroad Commissioner - 1881 - 268 страница
...Mr. Justice Swayne, delivering the opinion of the court in Shields vs. Ohio (5 Otto, 325), said, " Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers, the vested...sanctions and are as inviolable as in other cases; " and he cites decisions of eminent state courts in support of this principle. I read with great astonishment... | |
 | 1904 - 910 страница
...sheer oppression and wrong could not be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration; that beyond the sphere of the reserved powers the vested rights of property in corporations in such cases are surrounded by the same sanction and are as inviolable as in other... | |
 | 1884 - 1062 страница
...consistent with the scope and object of the act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment and alteration....sanctions and are as inviolable as in other cases." (Citing Miller v. NY & ER Co., 21 Barb. (NY), 513; Mayor, etc., of Worcester v. Norwich, etc., R. Co.,... | |
 | 1890 - 1148 страница
...act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers,...sanctions, and are as inviolable as in other cases." In all the.se cases the new legislation imposed was sustained as a valid exercise of power. The Holyoke... | |
 | 1893 - 1164 страница
...application of the rule in this wise. He says: "Two authoritative adjudications throw a strong lift lit from opposite directions upon this subject. We cite...only for the purpose of illustration. In Miller v. Railroad Co., 21 BarD. 513, the législature, under the reserved power of alteration, required the... | |
 | Victor Morawetz - 1886 - 642 страница
...purposes designed. " Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under the guise of amendment or alteration. Beyond the sphere of the reserved powers, the vested rights of property of corporations are surrounded by the same sanctions, and are as inviolable, as in other cases." 1 Chief Justice Shaw... | |
 | Walter Davis Dabney - 1889 - 300 страница
...surrendered. But it is equally true that " beyond the sphere of the reserved powers, the vested rights of corporations in such cases are surrounded by the...sanctions, and are as inviolable as in other cases." ' And in connection with the public right of regulating railroads and limiting their charges, it has... | |
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The power of alteration and amendment is not without limit. The alterations must be reasonable ; they must be made in good faith, and be consistent with the scope and object of the act of incorporation. Sheer oppression and wrong cannot be inflicted under... 
