OIL & GAS VENTURES, INC. v. CHEYENNE OIL CORPORATION


220 A.2d 785 (1966)

OIL & GAS VENTURES, INC., a Delaware corporation, as sole General Partner in Behalf of Oil & Gas Ventures-First 1958 Fund, Ltd., a New Jersey limited partnership, Oil & Gas Ventures, Inc., a Delaware corporation, as sole General Partner in Behalf of Oil & Gas Ventures-Second 1958 Fund, Ltd., a New Jersey limited partnership, and Oil & Gas Ventures, Inc., a Delaware corporation as sole General Partner in Behalf of Oil & Gas Ventures-First 1959 Fund, Ltd., a New Jersey limited partnership, Plaintiffs, v. CHEYENNE OIL CORPORATION, Forward Enterprises, Inc., Westland Oil Development Corporation, Louis Kung, Arthur B. Rothwell, C. F. Chien, and T. P. Wang, Defendants and Third-Party Plaintiffs, v. Clinton DAVIDSON, Raymond E. Hartz and Oil & Gas Ventures, Inc., Third-Party Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

June 3, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis J. Finger, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, and Arthur B. Kramer, of Feldman, Kramer, Bam, Nessen & Cowett, New York City, for plaintiffs.

Howard M. Handelman of Bayard, Brill, Russell & Handelman, Wilmington, for defendants Cheyenne Oil Corporation, Forward Enterprises, Inc., Westland Oil Development Corporation, Arthur B. Rothwell, Louis Kung, and Charles F. Chien.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor.

This action for an accounting was filed on December 7, 1962, naming as defendants, among others, Louis Kung and Charles F. Chien. Plaintiffs charged that Cheyenne is and was, as of the time of the matters complained of, the wholly owned subsidiary of the defendant Forward and that from February, 1957, until September, 1962, 80% of the stock of Forward was owned by Westland, 15% being allegedly owned...

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