RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION v. McCORMICK

Nos. 6548-6552.

102 F.2d 305 (1939)

RECONSTRUCTION FINANCE CORPORATION v. McCORMICK et al. and four other cases.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 1, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George T. Buckingham, Matthew Mills, Edward R. Johnston, Henry Garner O'Donnell, Benton Atwood, Doval Benjamin Williams, Karl Edwin Seyfarth, Samuel M. Rinaker, Michael F. Gallagher, Arthur R. Hall, Earl B. Wilkinson, Herbert Pope, Edwin J. Nergard, Matthias Concannon, William H. Dillon, R. F. Bostelman, Merritt C. Bragdon, Edward D. McDougal, Jr., Herbert M. Lautmann, David Levinson, A. Fishman, Don M. Peebles, Benjamin V. Becker, Walter E. McCornack, Paul R. Conaghan, George Gillette, John Mann, and S. Sidney Stein, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellants John A. McCormick et al.

Ralph McShaw, Walter E. McCornack, Frank H. Towner, and William C. Mulligan, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellants Robert F. Carr and others.

Franklin J. Stransky, of Chicago, Ill., for appellants 1468 small stockholders.

E. M. Ashcraft, Jr., Carroll J. Lord, and Rufus D. Beach, all of Chicago, Ill., for appellants John F. Jelke, Jr., and others.

O. John Rogge, of Chicago, Ill., Harold Rosenwald, of Washington, D. C., and Floyd M. Rett, of Chicago, Ill. (Claude E. Hamilton, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Clifford J. Durr, Asst. Gen. Counsel, and Hans A. Klagsbrunn, Counsel, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, all of Washington, D. C., and James A. Sprowl, of Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for appellee.

Before EVANS, SPARKS, and TREANOR, Circuit Judges.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is the plaintiff, and certain stockholders of the Central Republic Trust Company (hereinafter called Central) are the defendants in this suit which resulted in a decree for the plaintiff. Central was also named as defendant. The numerous appeals were consolidated and heard together.

Plaintiff, in this suit, seeks to recover money decrees against stockholders of Central, in amounts equal to the par...

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