Slade v. Endervelt’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “[The corporate defendants have offered neither authority nor any logical rationale for their argument that by virtue of their election to purchase plaintiffs shares rather than permitting the dissolution proceeding to go forward, they could strip her of her status as a shareholder and place her in the position of a general creditor, without such interest in the corporation as would permit her to bring a derivative action. Not only does the Business Corporation Law fail to describe a person in plaintiffs position as a general creditor, but, in any event, since plaintiff, at this point, is not yet owed a fixed sum there is no basis upon which to find or infer that she occupies such status.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stern v. Bambu Sales, Inc. (In Re Spielfogel)