ZAPATA CORP. v. MALDONADO


430 A.2d 779 (1981)

ZAPATA CORPORATION, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. William MALDONADO, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided May 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert K. Payson, (argued) of Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, and Thomas F. Curnin, Thomas J. Kavaler, P. Kevin Castel and Edward P. Krugman of Cahill, Gordon & Reindel, New York City, of counsel, for defendant-appellant.

Charles F. Richards, Jr. of Richards, Layton & Finger, Wilmington, for individual defendants.

Irving Morris and Joseph A. Rosenthal of Morris & Rosenthal, Wilmington, Sidney L. Garwin (argued), and Bruce E. Gerstein of Garwin, Bronzaft & Gerstein, New York City, of counsel, for plaintiff-appellee.

Arthur G. Connolly, Jr. of Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Wilmington, for amici curiae.

Before DUFFY, QUILLEN and HORSEY, JJ.


QUILLEN, Justice:

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order entered on April 9, 1980, by the Court of Chancery denying appellant-defendant Zapata Corporation's (Zapata) alternative motions to dismiss the complaint or for summary judgment. The issue to be addressed has reached this Court by way of a rather convoluted path.

In June, 1975, William Maldonado, a stockholder of Zapata, instituted a derivative action...

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