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· 3/5/1945

Estate of Johnson v. United States

Citations

  • 324 U.S. 852
  • 65 S. Ct. 713
  • 89 L. Ed. 1412
  • 1945 U.S. LEXIS 2376

How courts have described this case

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  • noting that jury’s conclusion that corporate insider had breached fiduciary duty by failing to disclose pending reorganization of corporation’s subsidiary before purchasing stock from a minority shareholder was in accord with the “special circumstance rule”
  • plan of reorganization generating “fair” value above price paid by insider

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