· 12/13/1971
New Liberty Medical & Hospital Corp. v. E. F. Hutton & Co.
Citations
- 474 S.W.2d 1
- 1971 Mo. LEXIS 821
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- “[t]he general rule is that on grounds of sovereignty and public policy the legal existence of a corporation cannot be attacked collaterally by private suitors, but only in a direct proceeding instituted by the [s]tate” [internal quotation marks omitted]
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