10 E.H. Smith 491 - Cox v. . Stokes’s Empirical Analysis
1898
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 69 later decisions — most recently February 2014 · most notably Southern Pac Co v. Bogert (1919), Morley Const Co v. Maryland Casualty Co (1937)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 44 state decisions
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Relationships
Relies on Marie v. . Garrison · Galway v. Metropolitan Elevated Railway Co. · Kley v. . Healy · White v. . Hoyt · Boardman v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
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““Knowing that their proceedings were thus attacked, Stokes, the committee, and the United Lines Telegraph Company continued, in defiance of the reorganization agreement, to carry on their scheme, as embodied in the modified agreement. Under these circumstances, no one could have been misled, simply because the plaintiffs waited to see whether relief would come through the pending litigation, or whether the sale would be confirmed, before commencing their action. The defendants proceeded at their peril, because they had full notice that some of the bondholders at least had not acquiesced in their unlawful acts, but were actiye in the assertion of their rights. We repeat, as applicable to this case, so far as the question of laches is concerned, the language of the court in Boardman v. Railway Company, 84 N. Y. 157 , 183: ‘It appears that there has been, ever since the expiration of the time when the dividends were due, an active and continuous litigation, and a sharp controversy in the courts with other parties against the old corporation and the defendant, by stockholders who are similarly situated with the plaintiffs, to recover dividends upon .the preferred stock. * * * The defendant necessarily was acquainted with the character of the litigation, with the questions involved and the claim of the preferred stockholders to the dividends; and in the face of these facts, with full notice of the nature of the claim, has no ground for insisting that it would have acted otherwise ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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