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· 5/21/1915

Whitman v. Huefner

Citations

  • 221 Mass. 265
  • 108 N.E. 1054
  • 1915 Mass. LEXIS 976

How courts have described this case

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  • finding cancellation proper where the facts indicated gross overvaluation and fraudulent concealment of a total failure of consideration
  • gross overvaluation and partial failure of consideration can lead to a finding of actual fraud
  • When stock is not void but “merely voidable, then that form of relief is to be adopted which would seem to be most in accord with all the equities of the case. I find nothing in the position of respondents which would justify allowing them to retain the [] stock.”

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