McLain v. Lanova Corp.

Harrington, Chancellor:

The question is whether the defendants, William Mertens, Jr., Daniel J. Riesner, Hans Fischer and William S. Murray, Jr., were legally elected directors of the Lanova Corporation at the annual stockholders’ meeting, held March 21st, 1944. They were candidates for these offices on the so-called management ticket, and were duly declared elected by a plurality of all the *178votes cast at that meeting. But the petitioners claim that numerous votes cast by proxies were illegally rejected, and that Henry Flood, Jr., Frank Woodman, Ervin L. Hall and Alanson Wilson, who were voted…