Pelfrey Ex Rel. Associated Railway Contractors, Inc. v. Bank of Greer

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• holding a shareholder’s derivative action, even where the only relief allowed is a recovery of damages, is nevertheless a suit in equity and not an action at law
• holding the Seventh Amendment to the United State Constitution is not applicable to the States
• an order allowing a jury trial is immediately appealable where there is no such entitlement as a matter of right
• shareholders derivative action is equitable and triable by the court even if corporation would have been entitled to jury trial had it brought the action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).