GREENSFELDER v. ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO.

Nos. 11661-11664, 11668-11670.

114 F.2d 53 (1940)

GREENSFELDER et al. v. ST. LOUIS PUBLIC SERVICE CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 17, 1940.

Writ of Certiorari Denied December 23, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bernard Greensfelder, Forrest M. Hemker, George T. Priest, Robert E. Moloney, Thomas S. McPheeters, Robert H. McRoberts, W. Frank Carter, Harold R. Small, Samuel W. Fordyce, Joseph R. Long, Greensfelder & Hemker, Boyle & Priest, Bryan, Williams, Cave & McPheeters, Carter & Small, and Fordyce, White, Mayne, Williams & Hartman, all of St. Louis, Mo., on general brief of appellants.

Robert H. McRoberts, of St. Louis, Mo., presented general argument for appellants.

Forrest M. Hemker, of St. Louis, Mo., (Bernard Greensfelder and Greensfelder & Hemker, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant Edward Greensfelder.

George T. Priest, of St. Louis, Mo. (Boyle & Priest, of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant Robert E. Moloney.

Robert H. McRoberts, of St. Louis, Mo. (Thomas S. McPheeters and Bryan, Williams, Cave & McPheeters, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant Rhodes E. Cave.

Robert B. Caldwell, of Kansas City, Mo., for appellant Samuel A. Mitchell.

Harold R. Small, of St. Louis, Mo. (W. Frank Carter, William T. Jones, and Emmet T. Carter, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellants W. Frank Carter and others.

Hyman G. Stein, of St. Louis, Mo., pro se.

S. W. Fordyce, of St. Louis, Mo. (G. T. Priest, Frank E. Williams, Joseph R. Long, Boyle & Priest, and Fordyce, White, Mayne, Williams & Hartman, all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellant Frank O. Watts.

T. E. Francis, of St. Louis, Mo. (O. P. Owen, B. G. Carpenter, and T. E. Francis, Jr., all of St. Louis, Mo., on the brief), for appellees St. Louis Public Service Co. and Henry W. Kiel, Trustee, St. Louis Public Service Company, debtor.

Edgar H. Wayman and Harold C. Hanke, both of St. Louis Mo., on the general brief for appellee City of St. Louis.

Before WOODROUGH and THOMAS, Circuit Judges, and BELL, District Judge.


Writ of Certiorari Denied December 23, 1940. See 61 S.Ct. 396, 85 L.Ed. ___.

WOODROUGH, Circuit Judge.

Edward Greensfelder, and other attorneys and individuals who filed claims for compensation for services rendered in the reorganization in bankruptcy of the St. Louis Public Service Company, appeal from the final decree rendered on the claims. Appeals have been taken severally but they present some issues of law which are common to several appeals and which...

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