Legal Opinion
General Foods Corp. v. Cryo-Maid, Inc.
Court of Chancery of Delaware
Decided March 5, 1964PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Wolcott, Justice:
This is an appeal from an order of the Vice Chancellor staying further prosecution of the action below until further order of the court, and denying a motion to enjoin Cryo-Maid from prosecuting further an action filed by it in the State of Illinois.
This is an action for declaratory judgment to establish the rights and obligations of General Foods and Cryo-Maid under an agreement entered into between them. Briefly, the parties entered into a contract under which Cryo-Maid agreed to turn over to General Foods for commercial exploitation, after testing, an allegedly novel and…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- Koster v. (American) Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Winsor v. United Air Lines, Inc.Superior Court of Delaware · 1958
- Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.Court of Chancery of Delaware · 1932
- Lanova Corp. v. Atlas Imperial Diesel Engine Co.Superior Court of Delaware · 1949
- Chadwick v. GillCourt of Chancery of Delaware · 1928
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3Cited by42 opinions
- McWane Cast Iron Pipe Corp. v. McDowell-Wellman Engineering Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1970
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- General Foods Corporation v. Cryo-Maid, Inc.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1964
- Ison v. EI DuPont De Nemours and Co.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1999
- Taylor v. LSI Logic Corp.Supreme Court of Delaware · 1997
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