MOBILE COMMUNITY ACTION v. HANKE

80-630.

411 So.2d 783 (1982)

MOBILE COMMUNITY ACTION, a non-profit corporation, and Nelva Simon, president of Mobile Community Action v. Charles HANKE, Mobile County, a body corporate and politic, and Non-Partisan Voters League, a non-profit corporation.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 19, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael A. Figures, Mobile, for appellants.

Willis M. Holloway, Jr., Mobile, for appellees.


MADDOX, Justice.

This case involves the extent to which a circuit court may review, on a petition for writ of mandamus, the action of the board of directors of a private corporation. The trial court found that, under the bylaws and articles of incorporation of the corporation, the board of directors was under a legal duty to seat certain individuals on the board. We affirm.

Mobile Community Action (hereinafter referred to as MCA) was organized under the laws...

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