The Maryland Drydock Co.
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Meinhard v. Salmon
249 N.Y. 458 (N.Y. 1928) Cited 1,177 times 6 Legal AnalysesHolding a co-venturer breached his duty of loyalty when he extended the lease on commercial property and excluded his co-venturer from the opportunity
Holy Trinity Church v. United States
143 U.S. 457 (1892) Cited 923 timesHolding that although the Alien Contract Labor Act made it a crime to contract with or encourage any alien to migrate to the United States "to perform labor or service of any kind," a cleric who emigrated from England to serve as a pastor of a New York church and thus technically fell within the letter of the Act, was exempt from the Act's reach because of the absurd results that would follow from giving such broad meaning to words of the statute