SCHNELL v. CHRIS-CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC.


283 A.2d 852 (1971)

Andrew H. SCHNELL, Jr., Plaintiff, v. CHRIS-CRAFT INDUSTRIES, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle.

November 10, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Albert Young and Edward B. Maxwell, II, of Young, Conaway, Stargatt & Taylor, Wilmington, and Carl F. Goodman, New York City, and Jay L. Westbrook of Surrey, Karasik, Greene & Seham, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

David F. Anderson and Charles S. Crompton, Jr., of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, Daniel P. Levitt, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, Washington, D. C., and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, New York City, for defendant.


MARVEL, Vice Chancellor:

On October 22, 1971, the plaintiff Schnell, a stockholder of the defendant corporation, as he established at trial, caused to be delivered to the office of defendant's registered agent in Delaware a written demand under oath which asserted plaintiff's claimed statutory right under 8 Del.C. § 220 to inspect and to copy defendant's stock ledger or to be furnished a list of its stockholders, such production to be made available to plaintiff...

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