ESSEX UNIVERSAL CORPORATION v. YATES

No. 196, Docket 27073.

305 F.2d 572 (1962)

ESSEX UNIVERSAL CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Herbert J. YATES, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 28, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter S. Beck, New York City (Albert F. Smith, Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin, Krim & Ballon, New York City, on the brief), for appellant.

Max Freund, New York City (Ambrose Doskow, Ernest A. Gleit, Rosenman Colin Kaye Petschek & Freund, New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Before LUMBARD, Chief Judge, and CLARK and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Chief Judge.

This appeal from the district court's summary judgment in favor of the defendant raises the question whether a contract for the sale of 28.3 per cent of the stock of a corporation is, under New York law, invalid as against public policy solely because it includes a clause giving the purchaser an option to require a majority of the existing directors to replace themselves, by a process of seriatim resignation, with a majority designated by the...

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