TABAS v. CROSBY


444 A.2d 250 (1982)

Harriette TABAS, Lee Rappaport and Fran Rappaport, Beverlee Goldberg, Custodian for Jeffrey L. Goldberg, Morton B. Wapner, Isabel C. Heffler and Joseph H. Levit, Plaintiffs, v. James M. CROSBY, John F. Crosby, Jr., William M. Crosby, I. G. Davis, Jr., David F. Edwards, John C. Miller and Henry B. Murphy, Defendants, and Resorts International, Inc., Nominal Defendant.

Court of Chancery of Delaware, New Castle County.

Decided March 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Prickett, and Vernon R. Proctor, Prickett, Jones, Elliott, Kristol & Schnee, Wilmington, Sherrie R. Savett, Berger & Montague, Stuart H. Savett, Kohn, Savett, Marion & Graf, Philadelphia, Pa., Daniel W. Krasner, and Jeffrey G. Smith, Wolf, Haldenstein, Adler, Freeman & Herz, New York City, Richard D. Greenfield, Greenfield & Chimicles, Bala Cynwyd, Pa., Arnold Levin, Levin & Fishbein, Fred Lowenschuss, Philadelphia, Pa., Arthur N. Abbey, New York City, Leonard Barrack, Barrack, Rodos & McMahon, and Bernard M. Gross, Gross & Sklar, Philadelphia, Pa., for plaintiffs.

Arthur G. Connolly, Jr., James S. Green, Andrew G. T. Moore, II, and Henry E. Gallagher, Jr., Connolly, Bove & Lodge, Wilmington, for individual defendants.

Michael D. Goldman and Donald J. Wolfe, Jr., Potter, Anderson & Corroon, Wilmington, for nominal defendant.


HARNETT, Vice Chancellor.

In this stockholder derivative action, service of process on the individual defendants was accomplished by reliance on the provisions of 10 Del.C. § 3114, the corporate director's implied consent to service of process statute. The plaintiffs then filed a motion to substitute the personal representative of a deceased defendant as a party and subsequently a motion to dismiss was filed on...

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