In re Hampden Valley Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• noting that an appellate court can properly take judicial notice of any matter of which any court of original jurisdiction may properly take notice
• indicating that accountant liability turns on foreseeability of plaintiff’s reliance
• stockholder free to initiate derivative action when receiver refuses to initiate suit necessary for protection of creditors
• stockholder free to initiate derivative action when receiver refuses to initiate suit necessary for protection of creditors
• discussion of only four alternatives sufficient as long as those alternatives are “sufficient to permit a reasoned choice”
• defendant liable “to all those persons whom he should reasonably have foreseen would be injured by his misrepresentation”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).