NICKSON v. FILTROL CORPORATION


262 A.2d 267 (1970)

Richard E. NICKSON and the Slick Corporation, a Delaware corporation, Plaintiffs, v. FILTROL CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, Myron A. Bantrell, Ralph M. Haney, Leon A. Kahn, Harold W. Sanders and O. Milton Stout, Defendants.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

January 27, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry M. Canby, Charles F. Richards, Jr., and Richard F. Balotti, of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for plaintiffs.

Richard L. Sutton and Paul P. Welsh, of Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell, Wilmington, for defendant, Filtrol Corp.

E. D. Griffenberg, Jr., of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for defendant, Myron A. Bantrell and other individual defendants.


DUFFY, Chancellor:

This is a derivative action brought for the benefit of Filtrol Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Filtrol). Plaintiffs are Richard E. Nickson, a record holder of 100 shares of Filtrol stock, and The Slick Corporation, a Delaware corporation (Slick), which holds something over 1,320,000 shares, or more than 50% of those outstanding. The individual defendants are the directors and officers of Filtrol: Myron A. Bantrell, Ralph M. Haney, Leon A. Kahn...

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