Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Great American Industries, Inc.
District Court, N.D. New York
Decided March 12, 1982No. 80-CV-841PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER
McCURN, District Judge.
This lawsuit stems from the merger between Chenango Industries, Inc. (“Chenango”) and Great American Industries, Inc., (“GAI”) in October 1979. As a result of the merger, Chenango became a wholly-owned subsidiary of GAI. Plaintiff, a minority shareholder in Chenango prior to the merger, alleges that he and other minority shareholders were defrauded in the sale or exchange of their Chenango stock by means of a misleading and incomplete joint proxy statement and prospectus issued by the defendant corporations and certain of their directors and…
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