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Smith Vs. Sperling

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Jun 10, 1957

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  2. Quincy Vs. Steel US Supreme Court · Jan 31, 1887
  3. Doctor Vs. Harrington US Supreme Court · Feb 20, 1905
  4. Strawbridge Vs. Curtiss US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1806
  5. Hawes Vs. Oakland US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1881
  6. Helm Vs. Zarecor US Supreme Court · Nov 06, 1911
  7. Dunn Vs. Clarke US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1834
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  8. Detroit Vs. Dean US Supreme Court · Jan 22, 1883
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  10. Dodge Vs. Woolsey US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1885
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  11. U.S. 91 (1957) U.S. Supreme Court Smith v. Sperling
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  12. U.S. 91 (1957) Smith v. Sperling
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  13. to the stockholder within the meaning of that term as used in Doctor v. Harrington
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  14. would be no diversity of citizenship, since Delaware corporations would be on both sides of the lawsuit. Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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  15. assertion by a stockholder of that cause of action is not the question here. Such was the problem involved in Hawes v. Oakland
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  16. of conduct which he attacks. The charge normally is cast in terms of fraud, breach of trust, or illegality. See Doctor v. Harrington
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  17. Venner v. Great
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  18. for it has been over eight years in the courts on this question of jurisdiction. Since our decision in Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins
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  19. U. S. 64 , the law which governs the merits in these derivative actions is local law. Cohen v. Beneficial
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  20. The bill and answer normally determine whether the management is antagonistic to the stockholder, as Central R. Co. v. Mills
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  21. U. S. 249 , and Doctor v. Harrington
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  22. and so on. As the Court said in Delaware & Hudson Co. v. Albany
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  23. defeat jurisdiction. Absent collusion, there is diversity jurisdiction when the real collision of issues, Indianapolis v. Chase
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  24. National Bank, 314 U. S. 63 , 314 U. S. 69 , or, as stated in Helm v. Zarecor
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  25. the representative which would have been determinative of jurisdiction in this diversity case. See Chappedelaine v. Dechenaux
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  26. Mexican Central R. Co. v. Eckman
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  27. Mecom v. Fitzsimmons
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  28. U. S. 186 . But jurisdiction, once attached, is not impaired by a party's later change of domicile. Mullen v. Torrance
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  29. is brought, is applied to a situation where a party dies and a non-diverse representative is substituted. Dunn v. Clarke
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  30. Hawes v. Oakland
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  31. Delaware & Hudson Co. v. Albany
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  32. The Court in Doctor v. Harrington
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  33. Id., p, 196 U. S. 588 . The leading case cited by the Court was Hawes v. Oakland
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  34. so that it may be made to appear that the diversity of citizenship necessary for federal jurisdiction exists. Detroit v. Dean
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  35. To sustain diversity jurisdiction, there must exist an 'actual,' Helm v. Zarecor
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  36. U. S. 32 , 222 U. S. 36 , 'substantial,' Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron
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  37. whom on one side of the controversy are citizens of different states from all parties on the other side. Strawbridge v. Curtiss
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  38. federal courts, to 'look beyond the pleadings and arrange the parties according to their sides in the dispute.' Dawson v. Columbia
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  39. Indianapolis v. Chase
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  40. and leading case dealing with the alignment of parties for jurisdictional purposes in a stockholder's suit is Doctor v. Harrington
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  41. F.Supp. 781, 802. This has been the view that this Court has consistently taken since Doctor v. Harrington
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  42. Three years later, Doctor v. Harrington
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  43. was reaffirmed and its basis made clear in Venner v. Great
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  44. U. S. 31 -32. Page 354 U. S. 103 To make explicit the case's relation to the prior case of Doctor v. Harrington
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  45. of Doctor v. Harrington
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  46. Id. at 209 U. S. 32 -33. The jurisdictional doctrine of Doctor v. Harrington
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  47. as reaffirmed and elaborated in Venner v. Great
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  48. Northern R. Co., was accepted without question only ten years ago in Koster v. Lumbermens
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  49. on the plaintiff's side . . . , and jurisdiction would be ousted. Indianapolis v. Chase
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  50. is saved in this class of cases by a special dispensation, because the corporation is in antagonistic hands. Doctor v. Harrington
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