Duffy v. Loft Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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6 district · 15 state decisions

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1. “[I]t cannot be held that the stockholders who gave proxies, notwithstanding the assumption of an intent on their part that the proxies would be acted upon, by the mere entertaining of such an intent can permanently fasten the relationship of agency upon those named in the proxies so that the latter cannot refuse to act. An agent can always abandon his agency at the expense of assuming the risk of liability if the circumstances are such that the law attaches liability. And so in this case, the [proxy holder] was free, if it saw fit, to abandon the agency and fail to act under it, notwithstanding it had solicited the relationship and the principals had sought to confer it.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 681 F. Supp. 1104 - Greensboro Professional Baseball Club, Inc. v. Southern League of Professional Baseball Clubs, Inc.

2. “the paper writing which we call a proxy is nothing more than evidence of a relationship. It is not the relationship. It simply testifies that A. has constituted B. his agent to act for him in a vicarious capacity”);”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. North Fork Bancorporation, Inc. v. Toal