CHRYSLER CORPORATION v. DANN


223 A.2d 384 (1966)

CHRYSLER CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, Cross-Appellee, v. Sol A. DANN et al. and Mary L. Gallo et al., Plaintiffs and Petitioners Below, Appellees, Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

October 17, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell J. Willard, Jr., of Hastings, Taylor & Willard, Wilmington, Lewis M. Dabney, Jr., Samuel Beck and Liebman, Eulau & Robinson, New York City, for Julius R. Reiver, Iona P. Reiver, Ann Gelbard and Robert Markewich, plaintiffs and petitioners below, appellees and cross-appellants.

William E. Taylor, Jr., Wilmington, Norman S. Nemser and Stanley Nemser, of Nemser & Nemser, and Irving Steinman, New York City, for Mary L. Gallo and A. James Gallo, plaintiffs and petitioners below, appellees and cross-appellants.

Januar D. Bove, Jr., and Arthur G. Connolly, Jr., of Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Wilmington, for Dann, Rosenbaum, Bloom & Kaufman, petitioner below, appellee and cross-appellant.

Sotiere S. Kapsalis, Wilmington, I. Walton Bader and Maximilian Bader, of Bader & Bader, New York City, for objectors I. Walton Bader, Maximilian Bader and Arthur Hoffman.

Richard F. Corroon, of Berl, Potter & Anderson, Robert H. Richards, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, Francis S. Bensel, Robert Ehrenbard and Kelley, Drye, Newhall, Maginnes & Warren, New York City, for Chrysler Corp., appellant and cross-appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., CAREY, J., and STIFTEL, President Judge, sitting.


WOLCOTT, Chief Justice.

These are appeals and cross-appeals from a judgment of the Chancellor fixing fees and awarding expenses to plaintiffs and objectors in derivative actions against Chrysler Corporation and certain individual defendants. For the purposes of argument, we consolidated the appeals and by this opinion dispose of all of them.

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