Legal Opinion
Bata v. Bata
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided August 3, 1960PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Southerland, Chief Justice:
This case presents the latest phase of a long and bitter family struggle for the control of the immense Bata shoe business, a world-wide industrial enterprise founded by the late Thomas Bata of Czechoslovakia. That control is represented by the majority of the shares of stock of Leader, A. G., a Swiss corporation. Bearer certificates for 1,170 of the 2,000 issued shares of Leader are physically in the custody of the Court of Chancery. These shares are owned by two Delaware holding companies,Westhold Corporation and North River Securities Corporation, the shares of…
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