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HELFAND v. GAMBEE

136 A.2d 558 (1957)

Sara H. HELFAND, Plaintiff, v. A. S. GAMBEE, W. E. Michel, J. R. Dillon, H. D. Cox, E. G. Hines, S. P. Skouras, H. G. Place, S. R. Kent, H. D. Campbell, Dan Michalove, Sidney Towell, D. A. Henderson, W. W. Keith, Peter Colefax, J. L. Beebe, R. W. Millar, B. F. Gilles, Gregson Bautzer, F. H. Ricketson, Jr., E. C. Rhoden, J. B. Bertero, G. L. Sterling, Jr., G. H. Heyman, Jr., Alan May, John Doe and Richard Roe, as executors or administrators of the estate of C. P. Skouras, Deceased, Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc. and National Theatres, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

December 5, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Irving Morris, Wilmington, and Milton Paulson, New York City, for plaintiff.

William S. Potter and Henry R. Horsey, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, and O'Melveney & Myers, Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants National Theatres, Inc., and Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc.

Edwin D. Steel, Jr., and Andrew B. Kirkpatrick, Jr., of Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht, Wilmington, and Bryon Spencer, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant E. C. Rhoden.

MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

Plaintiff, who alleges that she has been a shareholder of the defendant, National Theaters Inc., since September 1952, sues derivatively for the benefit of that corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Fox Midwest Theatres, Inc. The complaint seeks relief for acts allegedly occurring before as well as after the September 1952 date, plaintiff's theory being that having allegedly been a stockholder of Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation...

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