Leggett v. Missouri State Life Insurance Company

How courts have described this case

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

• indicating that the appellate court should independently consider the evidence and reach its own conclusions
• “Courts will not overthrow the plain and unambiguous terms of a written agreement because of an erroneous practical construction which the parties have adopted.”
• fees are not taxes if they are “paid by certain individuals to public officers for services rendered”
• claims arising from petition seeking final accounting of company brought by former stockholders
• “[Cjourts will not interfere with or attempt to control the internal management or policy of a corporation except in cases of fraud, bad faith, breach of trust, gross mismanagement, or ultra vires acts on the part of the officers or directors.” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).