Buechner v. Farbenfabriken Bayer Aktiengesellschaft

Southerland, Chief Justice:

Plaintiff Buechner is a former employee of the defendant corporation (herein “German Bayer”). On September 9, 1958 he filed suit in the court below to recover monetary damages flowing from an alleged breach of his employment contract.

German Bayer is a non-resident. Plaintiff alleged in his complaint that it was the owner of fifty per cent of the stock of Mobay Chemical Company, a Delaware corporation, and prayed that a writ of sequestration issue to seize the shares pursuant to 10 Del.C. § 366.

The writ issued, but the return showed that the Mobay stock was not…