Legal Opinion
Swank v. Sverdlin
Texas Court of Appeals, 1st District (Houston)
Decided November 7, 2003No. 01-99-00428-CVPublishedCited by 53 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ADELE HEDGES, Justice.
In this commercial dispute, Mark Swank, Marvin Chudnoff, Jeffrey Suss-man, Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas Holdings Corp., L.D.E. Associates, L.L.C., and James McCoy, Jr. appeal a judgment in favor of Anatoly Sverdlin individually and derivatively on behalf of Automated Marine Propulsion, Systems, Inc. 1 We reverse and render.
Background
Anatoly Sverdlin, an engineer, came to Houston in 1974, after defecting from the Soviet Union. In 1977, he started his own business, Automated Marine Propulsion Systems, Inc. (“AMPS”), which primarily repaired diesel marine engines on…
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