CANNON v. UNION CHEMICALS & MATERIALS CORP.


144 A.2d 145 (1958)

Curtis W. CANNON, Plaintiff, v. UNION CHEMICAL & MATERIALS CORP., a Delaware corporation; Otto A. Cheska, Harry A. Clark, James H. Clark, Thomas B. Moses, D. L. Frawley, Stewart F. Hancock, John J. Harding, Gustave L. Levy, Mrs. H. Paul Nulligan, William B. Paul, Stephen Rooth and Richard L. Rosenthal, Directors of the Defendant Union Chemical & Materials Corp., Paul Kitch, Plateau Natural Gas Company, a Colorado corporation, Drillers Gas Company, a Kansas corporation, John D. Murchison and Clint Murchison, Jr., as partners doing business as Murchison Brothers, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

July 22, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Howard L. Williams and William F. Lynch, II, of Morris, James, Hitchens & Williams, Wilmington, for plaintiff.

Richard F. Corroon, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, for moving defendants.


SEITZ, Chancellor.

Plaintiff, a stockholder of Union Chemicals & Materials Corporation ("Union"), a Delaware corporation, commenced this action, partly derivative in nature, against Union and certain non-resident individual defendants. Union was served and appeared.

Two of the defendants, Kitch and Rosenthal ("defendants") have moved to dismiss the complaint as to them on the ground that they are non-residents of Delaware and no property belonging to them...

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