LUTZ v. BOAS


176 A.2d 853 (1961)

Nettie M. LUTZ and Managed Funds, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Lloyd E. BOAS, J. John Brouk, Robert A. Hicks, James J. Mullen, Jr., Jefferson J. Rebstock, Dr. Earl Rice, W. Munro Roberts, Jr., Hilton H. Slayton and Hovey E. Slayton, Leo Model, Rolf R. Roland, Frits Markus, Robert R. Rosenberg, Walter H. Berton, Walter S. Morris, Erwin Wolff, Herman H. Stone, Stephen M. Jaquith, Elliot D. Fox, Jr., and Frank L. Thompson, individually and as partners doing business under the firm, name and style of Model, Roland & Stone, James S. Stubbs and Harold W. Smith, and Slayton Associates, Inc., Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

November 10, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. McMahon, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, and R. Walston Chubb, Robert S. Allen, Dominic Troiani, of Lewis, Rice, Tucker, Allen & Chubb, St. Louis, Mo., for plaintiff, Managed Funds, Inc.

William E. Taylor, Jr., Wilmington and Abraham L. Pomerantz and Jerome T. Orans, of Pomerantz, Levy & Haudek, New York City, for plaintiff, Nettie M. Lutz.

Hilton Slayton, Hovey Slayton and Slayton Associates, St. Louis, Mo., pro se.

Robert H. Richards, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, and Arthur H. Dean and Marvin Schwartz, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendants, Model, Roland & Stone, Leo Model, Rolf R. Roland, Frits Markus, Robert Rosenberg, Walter H. Berton, Walter S. Morris, Erwin Wolff and Herman H. Stone.

John VanBrunt, Jr., and E. Dickinson Griffenberg, Jr., of Killoran & VanBrunt, Wilmington, for defendant, Dr. Earl Rice.

Defendant, Jefferson J. Rebstock, did not appear; jurisdiction limited to stock seized.

The other defendants were not subject to this court's jurisdiction.


SEITZ, Chancellor.

This is my decision based on developments subsequent to my opinion of May 25, 1961 in Lutz v. Boas (Del.Ch.), 171 A.2d 381. It will be necessary to read that opinion in order to understand the present one. I held Model liable for its profits on Funds' brokerage commissions because it violated the Investment Company Act of 1940, 15 U.S.C.A. § 80a-1 et seq. The amount...

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