PUTTERMAN v. DAVELER


134 A.2d 480 (1957)

Isaac PUTTERMAN, Robert L. Levine and Barbara G. Mayer, Plaintiffs, v. Erie V. DAVELER, Raymond B. Hindle, Lee B. Morey, Robert G. Stone, Alton Austin Cheney, Arnold Hoffman, Henry T. Mudd, Clifton L. Wyman, and Reserve Mining Company, a corporation of the State of Minnesota, and Mesabi Iron Company, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

August 29, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur G. Logan and Vincent A. Theisen, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

Aaron Finger, Wilmington, and Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside & Wolff, New York City, for defendants other than Reserve Mining Co.

William S. Potter, Wilmington, and Jones, Day, Cockley & Reavis, Cleveland, Ohio, for defendant Reserve Mining Co.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

Plaintiffs, who claim to be the owners of more than 3,550 of the 1,205,000 issued and outstanding shares of the common stock of the defendant, Mesabi Iron Company, a Delaware corporation, allege that they were stockholders at the time of the matters of which they complain and charge that the directors of Mesabi, who are also named defendants, have been derelict in their fiduciary duty to their stockholders. These alleged derelictions in duty...

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