PIERCE v. UNITED STATES

No. 45268.

49 F.Supp. 324 (1943)

PIERCE et al. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

April 5, 1943.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence A. Baker, of Washington, D. C. (John A. Selby and Baker, Selby & Ravenel, all of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Joseph H. Sheppard, of Washington, D. C., and Samuel O. Clark, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for defendant.

Before WHALEY, Chief Justice, and LITTLETON, WHITAKER, and MADDEN, Judges.


MADDEN, Judge.

On February 14, 1908, the First National Bank of the City of New York, in order to give to its stockholders the supposed benefits of investment in kinds of securities which could not be lawfully held by a bank, organized the First Security Company, a corporation authorized to invest in such securities. The story of how the Security Company was set up and how it was related to the bank is told in findings 3, 4, and 5. In brief the arrangement was that...

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