Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of Delaware, Inc. v. Hiram Grand Lodge Masonic Temple, Inc.

Seitz, Vice Chancellor:

Plaintiff seeks a review of an election of directors by the stockholders of the defendant corporation.

Plaintiff, as the holder of a majority of the defendant corporation’s common stock, sought and was refused the right to vote its stock at the meeting here reviewed. Defendants refused on the ground that plaintiff was not entitled to vote such stock under the terms of the following agreement executed by the plaintiff and the defendant corporation in December, 1925:

“Whereas, It is of prime importance that the Trustees of Hiram Grand Lodge Masonic Temple Incorporated…