Evans v. Armour and Company

CLARY, Chief Judge.

This is an action for a preliminary injunction brought by a stockholder of Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corporation, a Pennsylvania corporation, (hereinafter designated “BLH”), on behalf of himself, the corporation and others similarly situated, to enjoin the holding of a stockholders’ meeting of BLH on June 10, 1965 called specially for the purpose of approving a merger of BLH into Armour and Company, a Delaware corporation, (hereinafter designated “Armour”).

BLH is a manufacturer of “capital goods.” Armour, primarily known as a food and meat processing corporation, has also…