RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORP. v. CENTRAL REPUBLIC T. CO.

No. 14189.

17 F.Supp. 263 (1936)

RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION v. CENTRAL REPUBLIC TRUST CO. et al.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

November 7, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Hopkins, O. John Rogge, James A. Sprowl, George F. James, Jr., Floyd M. Rett, and George E. McMurray, all of Chicago, Ill., and James B. Alley, Max O'Rell Truitt, Harold Rosenwald, and Hans A. Klagsbrunn, all of Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

Henry J. & Charles Aaron, Ader & Ader, Maurice Alschuler, Altheimer, Mayer, Woods & Smith, Amberg, Ott, Dahlin & Livingston, George S. Anderson, Leonard A. Ash, Ashcraft & Ashcraft, Norman Asher, Baldwin & Rugen, Maurice A. Barancik, and John Potts Barnes, all of Chicago, Ill., F. W. Barrett, of Springfield, Mo., and K. B. Barrett, William C. Bausch, Alfred W. Bays, Beach, Fathchild & Scofield, Alfred Beck, Bell, Boyd & Marshall, Albert Belshe, Berger & Newmark, Russell T. Berry, E. A. Biggs, Sr., George E. Billett, Bither & Bither, Guy M. Blake, Arthur E. Boroughf, George G. Both, L. M. Bowden, Preston Boyden, Boyle, Murphy & Nelson, Brelin, Britton & Landon, Brewer, Smith & Farrell, Bernard J. Brown, Isidore Brown, Bryant, Roberts, Hwass & Lewe, Geo. T. Buckingham, John C. Bulger, Burke, Jackson & Burke, D. F. Bustin, Butler, Pope, Ballard & Elting, Butz von Ammon & Marx, August J. Calcagno, Cameron & Heath, Campbell, Clithero & Fischer, Irving B. Campbell, Carnahan, Slusser & Mitchell, Castle, Williams & McCarthy, Cattell & Waldron, Chadwick & Johnson, Chapman & Cutler, Joseph Chavkin, Wm. T. Church, Ernest W. Clark, H. J. Clark, Charles L. Cobb, Cohen, Tomas & Cohen, Meyer Cohn, Seymour N. Cohen, Concannon & Dillon, Alfred M. Cordell, Cummings & Wyman, Cummins, Hagenah & Flynn, Cutting, Moore & Sidley, Dankowski & Dankowski, Percy B. Davis, Decker, Golden & Perlman, Thomas G. Deering, Defrees, Buckingham, Jones & Hoffman, Dent, Weichelt & Hampton, Donald B. Dodd, Homer A. Dodge, Dunbar & Rich, Eckert & Peterson, Ellis & Hackett, Mark H. Ellis, Samuel A. & Leonard B. Ettelson, Herman Fabry, Harold A. Fein, Fischel, Kahn & Heart, Thomas H. Fisher, William J. Flaherty, A. L. Flynn, Lee J. Frank, Bernard Allen Fried, Robert Friedlander, Herbert J. Friedman, Albert W. Froehde, A. S. & E. W. Froehlich, Gallagher, Rinaker, Wilkinson & Hall, Charles J. Gallagher, Gann, Secord & Stead, Gardner, Carton & Douglas, A. R. Gates, Demetrius A. Geroulis, J. T. Gilbert, George Gillette, James R. Glass, Harold M. Goldstein, Ivan B. Goode, Gordon, Pierce & Edmonds, George A. Gordon, Henry L. Graf, Charles F. Grimes, Grossman & Edelstein, Samuel P. Gurman, J. Milton Guy, Jr., Nathan Haffenberg, Albert E. Hallett, Jr., Jacob G. Hamer, Walter Hamilton, Oscar Wycliff Harman, Heile, Cavender, Milchrist & Kaiser, Heineman & Langsett, Ernest J. Hewitt, Richard Hill, Jr., Charles S. Hirsch, Harold H. Hollowick, Samuel C. Horwitz, Arthur J. Hughes, John E. Hughes, Harry D. Irwin, Jacobson, Merrick, Nierman & Silbert, M. A. Jersild, Johnson, Johnson & Johnson, Johnson, Swanstrom, Wiles & Clawson, John E. Johnson, Samuel E. Johnson, William R. Jordan, Bernard F. Johnston, Roy Juul, Kamfner, Halligan & Marks, I. J. Karlin, Samuel Kassel, G. A. Kelly, H. E. Kelly & Wm. M. Kelly, Kerner, Jaros & Tittle, Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis, Kirkland, Tollkuehn, Finn & Smith, Knapp, Beye, Allen & Cushing, Morris Kompel, Edward H. Kubitz, Edward K. LaTocha, Urban A. Lavery, Samuel T. Lawton, Lederer, Livingston, Kahn, Adler & Adsit, John M. Lee, Morris Leibman, Levinson, Becker, Gilbert, Peebles & Swiren, A. C. Lewis, I. P. Lewis, Isaac B. Lipson, Litsinger, Healy, Reid & Bye, Lord, Lloyd & Bissell, Harry J. Lurie, Luster & Luster, MacChesney, Becker & Wells, Daniel L. Madden, John Mann, Wm. Mannhardt, George S. Marks, F. E. Matthews, K. L. Karr, J. Warren McCaffrey, McCarthy & Toomey, Joseph McCormack, Arthur F. McCormick, Walter E. McCornack, McDonald & Taylor, McNab, Holmes & Long, Joseph Mendelsohn, Benjamin S. Mesirow, Creighton S. Miller, Miller, Zeiss, Bengel & Lavery, Matthew Mills, Charles J. Monahan, Montgomery, Hart, Pritchard & Herriott, Meyer Morton, Moses, Kennedy, Stein & Bachrach, Walter E. Moss, William B. Moulton, Thomas R. Mulroy, Arthur O. Graves, Nash & Ahern, H. Leo Neiburger, Arthur Wm. Nelson, Newby, Rathbun & Burditt, C. E. Newton, Nicholson, Snyder, Chadwell & Fagerburg, Sidney C. Nierman, Leslie M. O'Connor, David Olshan, Sanford Olson, Pam & Hurd, Dennis F. Parsons, Henry Perlman, Elbridge Bancroft Pierce, Pines, Stein & Beber, Pomeroy & Martin, Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson & Raymond, Millard R. Powers, Jess S. Raban, Hyman Reeder, William S. Riegelhaupt, Joseph Rolnick, H. J. Rosenberg, Myer N. Rosengard, Rosenthal, Hamill & Wormser, Ross & Watts, Isaac S. Rothschild, Julian C. Ryer, Julius Ruben, Rubenstein & Becker, Joseph S. Rubenstein, Sanders, Childs, Bobb & Westcott, Edgar J. Schoen, Schuyler, Weinfeld & Hennessy, Schwartz, Welfeld & Perlman, A. A. Schwarzbach, Scott, MacLeish & Falk, Seago, Bradley & McRoy, Julius H. Selinger, Seyfarth & Atwood, Lester B. Shafton, Shulman, Shulman & Abrams, Joseph G. Slottow, Ben M. Smith, Socrates, Davis & Cohen, Sonnenschein, Berkson, Lautmann, Levinson & Morse, Spencer & Bryan, S. Sidney Stein, Silber, Isaacs, Clausen & Woley, Lewis A. Stebbins, Stebbins, McKinley & Price, Oscar D. Stern, Stephen J. Sullivan, Sims & Stransky, Felix J. Streyckmans, Swanson, Dodge & Bremner, Peter J. Tatooles, Clarence C. Taylor, Taylor, Miller, Busch & Boyden, Tenney, Harding, Sherman & Rogers, H. M. Tenny, Sidney Z. Tepper, Theodore J. Isaacs, C. M. Thomson, Townley, Wild, Campbell & Clark, C. E. Tripp, Gerald Turnbull, Frank L. Tuttle, Ungaro & Sherwood, John E. Van Natta, Albert H. & Henry Veeder, Wadsworth Watts, Herman Waldman, Watkins & Ten Hoor, Weber, Miller & Deffenbaugh, Leonard A. Weinberg, Maurice Weissman, Wetten, Pegler & Dale, Leslie H. Whipp, White & Hawxhurst, Walter E. Wiles, Wilhartz, Hirsch & Schanfarber, William H. Winslow, Jr., Wilson & McIlvaine, Winston, Strawn & Shaw, C. V. Wisner, Jr., S. R. Wittelle, F. Philip Young, and Zane, Morse, Zimmerman & Norman, all of Chicago, Ill., James E. Burke, of Joliet, Ill., Healy & Beverly, of Elgin, Ill., Perkins & Battle, of Charlottesville, Va., and Alphonse G. Riesenberg, of Cincinnati, Ohio, for defendants.


WILKERSON, District Judge.

Findings of Fact.

The court finds the facts as follows:

Plaintiff was incorporated by Act of January 22, 1932 (chapter 8, 47 Stat. 5, see 15 U.S.C.A. § 601 et seq.).

Defendant bank was organized under Illinois law on July 25, 1931, with paid up capital stock of $14,000,000, divided into 140,000 shares of the par value of $100 per share.

The condition of the bank on July 25, 1931, was as follows: Loans...

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