Supreme Court of Delaware

Where a father voted the shares of his minor children to gain operational control of a corporation without having first been appointed as guardian of his children's estate, determination that the father properly voted his minor children's shares is reversed and remanded where the shares owned by the children could not be voted in the manner in which they were voted by anyone other than a court-appointed guardian.

Appellate Information

• Decided 09/11/2007
• Published 09/12/2007

Judges

• JACOBS, Justice., Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices, constituting the Court en Banc.

Court

• Supreme Court of Delaware

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael F. Bonkowski (argued), Norman L. Pernick and Kimberly L. Gattuso, Esquires, of Saul Ewing, LLP, Wilmington, Delaware;  for Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Henry A. Heiman, Esquire, of Heiman Gouge & Kaufman, LLP, Wilmington, Delaware;  for Appellees.