Willard v. Moneta Building Supply, Inc.
Supreme Court of Virginia
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Kinser
This appeal involves a sale of the assets of a closely held corporation. The minority stockholder of the corporation has attacked the propriety of the transaction, primarily on the grounds that the corporation’s directors, who were also its majority stockholders, breached their statutory and common law duties by failing to maximize the sales price, by authorizing a transaction in which they had a conflict of interests, and by failing to comply with the statutory procedures for selling the assets of a corporation, not in the ordinary course of business. Finding no error, we will affirm the…
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