ADAMS v. CLEARANCE CORPORATION


118 A.2d 924 (1955)

A. F. ADAMS, Alice E. Adams and Almera Electric Company, a Delaware corporation, Appellants, v. CLEARANCE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Allen S. Crane, Ranford Dunlap, Theodore S. Gary, G. L. Grawols, F. S. Spring, Emmett Swanson, E. C. Blomeyer, C. S. Cadwell, A. E. Carlson and V. E. Chaney, said individuals as Voting Trustees of a certain Voting Trust Agreement dated April 1, 1954 covering voting stock of General and Telephone Investments, Inc., General and Telephone Investments, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and R. E. Williams, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

December 30, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Van Brunt, Jr., of Killoran & Van Brunt, Wilmington (Miller Walton, of Walton Lantaff Schroeder Atkins Carson & Wahl, Miami, Fla., of counsel), for appellants.

Thomas R. Mulroy, of Hopkins, Sutter, Halls, Owen & Mulroy, Chicago, Ill. (Richard F. Corroon, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, with him on the brief), for appellees.

SOUTHERLAND, C. J., and WOLCOTT and BRAMHALL, JJ., sitting.


PER CURIAM.

The question in this case is whether, on appeal from an order refusing a preliminary injunction, the appeal is moot because the act sought to be enjoined has since been consummated. Admittedly, the whole controversy is not moot, because the main issue is the validity of a voting trust, and the decision will govern the future voting of shares in the trust. It is urged, however, that the issue on this appeal is moot because injunctive relief is now impossible...

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