In Jacobson v. Brooklyn Lumber Co., 182 N.Y. 152 at 162, 76 N.E. 1075 at
1078 (1906), it reads:
"It is said in 10 Am. & Eng. Cyc. of Law, 790: 'A director cannot with
propriety vote in the board of directors upon a matter affecting his own
private interest any more than a judge can sit in his own case, and any
resolution passed at a meeting of the directors at which a director having
a personal interest in the matter voted will be voidable at the instance
of the corporation, or the shareholders, without regard to its fairness,
provided the vote of such director was necessary to the result.'"
We own the 1st ed. of American and English Encylcopedia of Law for which
the cite is in Injunctions, with no corresponding text. A paraphrase is
at 17 Am. & Eng. Encyc. of Law 791 [thanks to Steven Case at Chapel Hill
Law]. However, it is not the Jacobson quote.
The Jacobson court later in the same paragraph string cites the 2nd ed.,
which we do not own. So I ran an ILL request, from which Chapel Hill
informed me that it wasn't at that cite for the 2nd ed.
So the question: where does one find the original source of the Jacobson
quote?
Is there an Am. & Eng. Cyclopedia of Law distinct from ENcyclopedia? [I
have checked OCLC and Bieber's]. Any pointers would be appreciated.
TIA,
John M. Perkins
Oklahoma City University School of Law Library
405-557-6030, 405-521-5172 fax
jperkins@lec.okcu.edu
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