Legal Opinion
Parvin v. Kaufmann
Supreme Court of Delaware
Decided November 29, 1967PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wolcott, Chief Justice:
This is an appeal from the denial by the Court of Chancery of defendants’ motion to dismiss on the ground of forum non conveniens. The action is a stockholder’s derivative action brought on behalf of Parvin/Dohrmann Company, a Delaware corporation, with its principal place of business in California. The complaint charges self-dealing by the director-defendants in certain Nevada and California real estate transactions.
A motion to dismiss on the ground of forum non conveniens is addressed to the discretion of the trial court. It follows, therefore, that in an appeal from…
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