SAXE v. BRADY


184 A.2d 602 (1962)

Sidney SAXE and Harriet K. Saxe, Plaintiffs, v. William G. BRADY, Jr., Hugh W. Long, Thomas F. Chalker, Clarence J. Reese, John S. Tilney, Donald L. Kemmerer, Fundamental Investors, Inc., Hugh W. Long and Company, Incorporated, Morris M. Townsend and Townsend Corporation of America and Investors Management Company, Julian K. Roosevelt, T. Kennedy Stevenson, Roger Tuckerman, William H. Lough, S. W. Smith, Howard C. Sheperd and William M. Spencer, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

Reargument Denied September 24, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest S. Wilson, Jr., Wilmington, and Stanley L. Kaufman, Irwin M. Taylor and Shephard S. Miller, of Kaufman, Taylor & Kimmel, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Robert H. Richards, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, and Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., and Marvin Schwartz, of Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendants Fundamental Investors, Inc., Reese, Stevenson, Lough and Spencer.

Richard F. Corroon, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Wilmington, and Milton Pollack and Paul Baris, New York City, for defendants Hugh W. Long & Co., Inc., Investors Management Co., Brady, Long and Chalker.


The other defendants are not before the court.

SEITZ, Chancellor.

Plaintiffs became investors in 1952 in Fundamental Investors, Inc. ("Fund"), a Delaware corporation registered as an open-end investment company under the provisions of the Investment Company Act of 1940. They have brought this action on its behalf against its directors, investment adviser, and parent of its investment adviser.

Plaintiffs charge that the fees paid to Fund's investment...

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