Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. v. W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Co.

The Chancellor :

This case involves an alleged violation of the contract rights of the owners of the common stock of the W. S. Dickey Clay Manufacturing Company, and is before this court on a demurrer to an injunction bill filed by the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company. The latter company .is the owner of a considerable block of that class of defendant’s capital stock, and alleges that a purported amendment to its certificate of incorporation, acted on at a stockholders’ meeting held January 10th, 1940, did not receive the requisite vote, and is null and void, at least as to…