UDOFF v. ZIPF


58 A.D.2d 533 (1977)

Rose Udoff, on Behalf of Herself as a Shareholder of Babcock and Wilcox Company, and on Behalf of All Others Similarly Situated, Respondent-Appellant, v. George C. Zipf et al., Appellants-Respondents, et al., Defendants

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, First Department.

June 14, 1977


This derivative stockholders' action rests upon a claim by a stockholder that the directors improperly reduced the exercise price of certain extant stock options which had been granted to officers and employees. Acting in accordance with and by authority of the option plan itself, the directors properly exercised responsible business judgment to reduce the exercise price to the then market price, which was lower. To have done otherwise would have rendered the plan useless...

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