LAIRD v. CLEARFIELD & MANHONING RY. CO.


846 A.2d 118 (2004)

Frank J. LAIRD, Trustee Under the Trust Agreement of February 24, 1988 and Vernon C. Keesey, Jr., Individually and on Behalf of a Class of the Minority Shareholders of the Clearfield & Mahoning Railroad Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation and Derivatively on Behalf of the Clearfield & Mahoning Railroad Company, Appellants, v. The CLEARFIELD & MAHONING RAILWAY COMPANY, a Pennsylvania Corporation, Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburgh Railway Company, a Pennsylvania Corporation Buffalo & Pittsburgh Railroad, Inc., a Pennsylvania Corporation, CSX Transportation, Inc. a Virginia Corporation, R.J. Corman Railway Company/Pennsylvania Lines, Inc. a Pennsylvania Corporation and Richard J. Corman and Consolidated Rail Corporation and David R. Irvin, Appellees.

Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Filed February 20, 2004.

Reargument Denied April 29, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Tom P. Monteverde, Philadelphia, for Laird, appellant.

Walter Wall, Altoona, for Irvin, appellee.

Paige MacDonald-Matthes, Harrisburg, for CSX, appellee.

Kim C. Kesner, Clearfield, for Clearfield & Mahoning, appellee.

John Snyder, State College, for R.J. Corman, appellee.

Before: FORD ELLIOTT, BOWES and MONTEMURO, JJ.


MONTEMURO, J.

¶ 1 This is an appeal from a stipulated order awarding judgment in favor of Appellants in the amount of $17,552.01 in an action involving claims of contract breach, tortious interference with contractual relations, conspiracy to defraud, and breach of fiduciary duty.

¶ 2 Appellants are minority shareholders of Appellee Clearfield and Mahoning Railroad Company (C & M), a paper company incorporated in 1892 by Appellee Buffalo, Rochester...

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