Greenbaum v. Keil

Seitz, Vice-Chancellor:

Plaintiff is the successor in interest to one of four stockholders who originally owned equal amounts of all the outstanding stock in a small corporation. By this action he seeks to be restored to a position of stock equality by having this court set aside or modify an issuance of additional shares in September, 1920, to the original stockholders other than plaintiff’s predecessor in interest.

We must project ourselves backward some twenty-nine years and'try to blow away the dust of time and penetrate the curtain of death which now conceal the transaction under attack.…