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WILLIAMS v. STERLING OIL OF OKLAHOMA, INC.

273 A.2d 264 (1971)

Roger F. WILLIAMS, Plaintiff Below, Appellant, v. STERLING OIL OF OKLAHOMA, INC., a Delaware corporation, Defendant Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

January 4, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard J. Abrams and Mason E. Turner, Jr., of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for plaintiff below, appellant.

William Poole and Richard E. Poole, of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, and John A. Morrison, of Morrison, Hecker, Cozad, Morrison & Curtis, Kansas City, Mo., for defendant below, appellee.

WOLCOTT, C. J., and CAREY and HERRMANN, JJ., sitting.

HERRMANN, Justice:

This appeal raises the question of whether the conflict of two identical but contradictory proxies received in a corporate election may be resolved by the inspectors of the election from extrinsic evidence submitted by one of the contesting factions.

The Opinion of the Chancery Court appears at 267 A.2d 630, to which reference is made for a full statement of the facts and the basic contentions of the parties...

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