MEYER v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO.

No. 416.

84 F.2d 411 (1936)

MEYER et al. v. KANSAS CITY SOUTHERN RY. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

June 22, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter E. Meyer, of New York City, plaintiff-appellant appearing in person (Samuel C. Coleman and Leon Ulman, both of New York City, of counsel), for intervening plaintiffs-appellants.

Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City (Wm. D. Whitney, Littleton Groom, and Hugh A. Fulton, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendants constituting the firm of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., executors of estate of Mortimer L. Schiff, executors of estate of Otto H. Kahn, and Jerome J. Hanauer.

Ben C. Dey, George L. Buland, and Charles L. Minor, all of New York City, for appellees Southern Pac. Co., Hale Holden, and Henry W. deForest.

F. C. Nicodemus, Jr., of New York City, Carleton S. Hadley and A. H. Kiskaddon, both of St. Louis, Mo., and H. Brua Campbell, of New York City, for defendants St. Louis Southwestern Ry. Co., E. Roland Harriman, Alfred H. Swayne, William W. Cumberland, Winslow S. Pierce, Frank M. Gould, and Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., as executors under the last will and testament of Edwin Gould, deceased.

Hines, Rearick, Dorr & Hammond, of New York City (A. C. Rearick, Archie O. Dawson, and Paul Smith, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellees Missouri-Kansas-Texas R. Co., Charles D. Hilles, Willis D. Wood, Richard H. Swartwout, John W. Platten, and James I. Bush.

Samuel Untermyer and Samuel W. Moore, both of New York City, for defendants Kansas City Southern Ry. Co., Leonor F. Loree, William C. Loree, Samuel McRoberts, Andrew J. Miller, Arthur Turnbull, Pierpont V. Davis, and William J. Hutchinson.

Marcus L. Bell, of New York City, for Charles Hayden, Jere A. Downs, Frederick H. Baird, Claude W. Peters, Richard F. Hoyt, Lester Watson, Charles H. Connfelt, Clarkson Potter, Prescott Bigelow, Frank E. Gernon, John R. Dillon, Robert G. Stone, Herbert G. Bell, and Richard L. Morris.

Van Vorst, Siegel & Smith, of New York City (Alexander B. Siegel, of New York City, of counsel), for defendants-appellees Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co. and executors of Mason B. Starring, deceased.

Cullen & Dykman, of Brooklyn, N. Y. (Jackson A. Dykman, of Brooklyn, N. Y., of counsel), for appellees Frank Bailey, William M. Greve, Charles B. Stuart, Halsey Stuart & Co., Inc., and Harold L. Stuart.

Clarence G. Bernheimer, of New York City, for appellee Leo S. Bing.

Bruce R. Duncan, of Brooklyn, N. Y., for appellee Arthur H. Waterman.

Before MANTON, L. HAND, and AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judges.


MANTON, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).

The bill of complaint was dismissed below on motions for want of subject-matter jurisdiction. Appellant, a stockholder of the St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company (St. Louis Southwestern hereafter), brought a derivative suit in equity for the benefit of the company to recover from appellees, railroads, bankers, directors, and investors in stock, for alleged damages to the St. Louis Southwestern. The bill...

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