IN RE PARAMOUNT PUBLIX CORPORATION


15 F.Supp. 465 (1936)

In re PARAMOUNT PUBLIX CORPORATION. Claim of KATZ.

District Court, S. D. New York.

June 15, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, of New York City (Cloyd Laporte and Samuel S. Isseks, both of New York City, of counsel), for Paramount Pictures, Inc., successor to trustees of debtor.

Samuel Spring, of New York City (Charles E. Hughes, Jr., of New York City, and F. W. R. Pride, of New York City, of counsel), for claimant.

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, of New York City, and James B. Benedict, of Cincinnati, Ohio (Walbridge S. Taft, Jacquelin A. Swords and Whitman Knapp, all of New York City, of counsel), for Hulbert Taft, amicus curiæ.

Riegelman, Hess & Hirsch, of New York City (Cannon, Speith, Taggart, Spring & Annat, and Paul H. Keough, all of Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for Theodore De Witt, Receiver of Hotel Hollenden Co., amicus curiæ.


COXE, District Judge.

These are exceptions by the claimant to a report of a special master recommending the disallowance of the claim of Sam Katz against the debtor for $265,498.18, with interest.

The claim is for damages for alleged wrongful discharge under a contract of employment, dated January 1, 1932, between the claimant and the debtor, a New York corporation, for a term of three years; and the single question presented is whether section 60 of the New...

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