Legal Opinion
Lowell Wiper Supply Co. v. Helen Shop, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided November 2, 1964PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WEINFELD, District Judge.
This is essentially a stockholders’ derivative action with jurisdiction based upon diverse citizenship. The Helen Shop, Inc., for whose benefit the action is brought, is a Tennessee corporation. The two individual plaintiffs are citizens of Massachusetts, and the third plaintiff, Lowell Wiper Supply Co., is a Massachusetts corporation. All the defendants are citizens of the State of New York. Sidney Berman, the dominant and controlling stockholder of The Helen Shop, Inc., who died in 1959, was also a citizen of New York, as are his executors who are named as…
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