McLinden v. Coco

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the court “must accept an interpretation of the contract that harmonizes its provisions”
• recognizing that, if a business opportunity has been usurped, “the corporation may elect to claim all the benefits of the transaction for itself, and the law will impress a trust in favor of the corporation upon the property, interests and profits so acquired”
• finding parties who, along with their sons, each owned 50% of company, owed fiduciary duties
• noting the interrelated ideas of intent to be bound and definiteness of terms

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).