Lowder v. All Star Mills, Inc.

COZORT, Judge.

This appeal is the latest in a long series of vexatious appeals brought by defendant W. Horace Lowder, acting purportedly on behalf of the corporate defendants. The case below has its origins in a derivative action brought more than ten years ago by certain minority shareholders on behalf of All Star Mills, Inc. (“Mills”), Consolidated Industries, Inc. (“Consolidated”), and Lowder Farms, Inc. (“Farms”). After trial the jury found that Horace Lowder had misappropriated a corporate opportunity of Mills through the formation and operation of All Star Foods, Inc. (“Foods”), All Star…