ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. v. HESSEY

Nos. 3754-3757.

76 F.2d 645 (1935)

ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO. v. HESSEY and three other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

April 2, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carroll G. Walter, of New York City (Patterson, Eagle, Greenough & Day, of New York City, on the brief), for appellants in Nos. 3755 and 3756.

Herbert M. Brune, Jr., of Baltimore, Md. (Brown & Brune, of Baltimore, Md., and Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, of New York City, on the brief), for appellant in No. 3754.

Neil P. Cullom, of New York City (J. Purdon Wright, of Baltimore, Md., Henry W. Steingarten, of New York City, and W. Frank Every, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellant in No. 3757.

Malcolm H. Lauchheimer, of Baltimore, Md. (Sylvan Hayes Lauchheimer, of Baltimore, Md., on the brief), for appellee.

Before PARKER, NORTHCOTT, and SOPER, Circuit Judges.


SOPER, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from orders of the District Court disallowing claims filed by appellants against the estate of L. Van Bokkelen, Inc., a Maryland corporation, which was adjudicated bankrupt upon its voluntary petition, filed March 13, 1931. The four claims involved were all debts in the first instance of the bankrupt's predecessors in business, and the presence of common questions renders it desirable to dispose of the cases in a single opinion...

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