Hoomana Naauao O Hawaii ex rel. Maia v. Makekau

Citations

• 25 Haw. 418

Syllabus

<p>Corporations — meetings—call.</p> <p>A call of a corporate meeting in the legal sense of the term is a summons or notice to the parties entitled to meet directing them to do so.</p> <p>Same — same—same.</p> <p>The by-laws of the corporation provide that the annual meeting may be called by the president or by the board of trustees. The board met May 11 and decided to call the meeting for July 28. The president on June 20 issued and had published a call of the convention for July 21. The board did not publish or otherwise give notice of its call until June 27. Held, that the publication of the notice constituted the call and the call of the president being published first was therefore the legal call.</p> <p>Same — same—same.</p> <p>Where the power to call a corporate meeting is vested in either of two. officials of a corporation the one first legally exercising the power in a given case does so to the exclusion of the other.</p>