Atterbury v. Consolidated Coppermines Corp.

The Vice-Chancellor:

The petitioners charge that the purported election of directors at the stockholders’ meeting of 1940 was invalid because a quorum was not present at the meeting. To support this they would show that proxies were obtained by fraud, revocations of proxies were not recognized, proxies which were invalid were voted, and shareholders counted as present in person did not attend the meeting.

The petitioners, Boudinot Atterbury and Philip L. Garret, are shareholders and were formerly president and vice-*5president, respectively, of the corporation. In March, 1940, they made a report…