Williams v. Sterling Oil of Oklahoma, Inc.

HERRMANN, Justice:

This appeal raises the question of whether the conflict of two identical but contradictory proxies received in a corporate election may be resolved by the inspectors of the election from extrinsic evidence submitted by one of the contesting factions.

The Opinion of the Chancery Court appears at 267 A.2d 630, to which reference is made for a full statement of the facts and the basic contentions of the parties. The plaintiff appeals from the declaratory judgment therein announced, upholding the action of the inspectors in rejecting one of the proxies and accepting the other…