LA VARRE v. HALL

No. 5860.

42 F.2d 65 (1930)

LA VARRE v. HALL.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

July 21, 1930.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Hall, Warren Grice, and Chas. J. Bloch, all of Macon, Ga., Irvine F. Belser, of Columbia, S. C., A. B. Lovett, of Savannah, Ga., and L. W. Perrin, of Spartanburg S. C. (Hitch, Denmark & Lovett, of Savannah, Ga., Melton & Belser, of Columbia, S. C., Perrin & Tinsley, of Spartanburg, S. C., Hamilton Phinizy, of Augusta, Ga., and Hall, Grice & Bloch, of Macon, Ga., on the brief), for appellant.

John A. Sibley, of Atlanta, Ga., Geo. S. Jones and Scott Russell, both of Macon, Ga., Henry C. Hammond, of Augusta, Ga., and Louis M. Loeb, of New York City (Spalding, MacDougald & Sibley, of Atlanta, Ga., Hammond & Kennedy, of Augusta, Ga., Jones, Jones, Johnston & Russell, of Macon, Ga., and Cook, Nathan & Lehman, of New York City, on the brief), for appellee.

Before BRYAN and FOSTER, Circuit Judges, and GRUBB, District Judge.


FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

The issues in this case can best be stated by briefly reviewing the pleadings and the progress of the case. Harold Hall, appellee, brought this suit originally in the superior court of Richmond county, Ga., against William La Varre, appellant. The petition in substance alleged that Hall and La Varre, both newspaper men of more or less experience, had conceived the idea of acquiring a group of newspapers in the Southeast and had entered into...

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