Stickley v. Stickley

By Judge John J. McGrath, Jr.

Hence jarring sectaries may learn

Their real int’rest to discern;

That brother should not war with brother,

And worry and devour each other;

But sing and shine by sweet consent,

Till life’s poor transient night is spent,

Respecting in each other’s case

The gifts of nature and of grace.

William Cowper, The Nightingale and Glowworm (1782).

I. Introduction

ha its simplest form, this is a suit by a minority shareholder owning 35% of the stock of J. O. Stickley & Son, Inc. (“hereinafter JOSI") requesting that the Coiporation he dissolved and its affairs wound up pursuant to §…