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BATA v. BATA

163 A.2d 493 (1960)

Jan A. BATA, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. Thomas J. BATA, Thomas J. Bata and David Graham, as Executors of the Estate of Mary T. Bata, and Western Investment and Trading Company, Limited, a Bermuda corporation, Plaintiffs Below, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

August 3, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George T. Coulson (of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell), Wilmington, and Henry Cohen and Daniel M. Sandomire (of Cohen & Sandomire), New York City, for appellant.

Robert H. Richards, Jr. (of Richards, Layton & Finger), Wilmington, and Inzer B. Wyatt, John W. Dickey and Edward C. Stebbins, Jr. (of Sullivan & Cromwell), New York City, for appellees.

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

SOUTHERLAND, Chief Justice.

This case presents the latest phase of a long and bitter family struggle for the control of the immense Bata shoe business, a world-wide industrial enterprise founded by the late Thomas Bata of Czechoslovakia. That control is represented by the majority of the shares of stock of Leader, A. G., a Swiss corporation. Bearer certificates for 1,170 of the 2,000 issued shares of Leader are physically...

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