St. Louis v. Bay State Street Railway Co.

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the reason a director cannot act by proxy is that “his associates are entitled to his judgment, experience and business ability, just as his associates cannot deprive him of his rights and powers as director”
• explaining that the reason a director cannot act by proxy is that “his associates are entitled to his judgment, experience and business ability, just as his associates cannot deprive him of his rights and powers as director”
• “Each member of a corporate body has the right to consultation with the others and has the right to be heard upon all questions considered.”
• “Each member of a corporate body has the right to consultation with the others and has the right to be heard upon all questions considered.”
• “Each member of a corporate body has the right to consultation with the others and has the right to be heard upon all questions considered.”
• “It is, of course, fundamental that a special meeting held without due notice to all the directors is not lawful[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).