· 7/1/1869
Gilpatrick v. Inhabitants of Saco
Citations
- 57 Me. 277
How courts have described this case
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- “[T]he decision whether to pursue litigation directly on behalf of the corporation is lodged solely with the board of directors.”
- “A corporation is a legal fiction and cannot act on its own” but “through its board of directors and officers and other agents.”
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Judges: Appleton, Barrows, Cutting, Danforth, Dickerson, Walton
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