O'Hara v. Pittston Co.

This appeal is a sequel to Adams v. United States Distributing Corp., 184 Va. 134, 34 S. E. (2d) 244, 162 A. L. R. 1227 (certiorari denied, 327 U. S. 788, 66 S. Ct. 807, 90 L. Ed. 647), and, like it, arises out of the merger of United States Distributing Corporation, a Virginia corporation, with its principal office in the city of Richmond, with The Pittston Company, a Delaware corporation, under the name of the latter, which became effective on December 31, 1942.

A number of persons holding stock in the United States *329Distributing Corporation dissented from the merger. Nineteen of these,…