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UNITED STATES v. PENDERGAST

No. 5040 (Eq. Nos. 270-426).

39 F.Supp. 189 (1941)

UNITED STATES v. PENDERGAST et al.

District Court, W. D. Missouri, Central Division.

May 28, 1941.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard K. Phelps and Charles F. Lamkin, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., both of Kansas City, Mo., for plaintiff.

R. R. Brewster and John G. Madden, both of Kansas City, Mo., for T. J. Pendergast.

Terence M. O'Brien and Ralph M. Russell, both of Kansas City, Mo., for R. E. O'Malley.

Forest W. Hanna, of Kansas City, Mo., for A. L. McCormack.

Before STONE, Circuit Judge, and REEVES and OTIS, District Judges.

OTIS, District Judge.

This case concerns contempt charged to have been committed against this three-judge court by Thomas J. Pendergast, Robert Emmett O'Malley and A. L. McCormack. The case of Nye and Mayers, Petitioners v. United States of America and Guthrie, 61 S.Ct. 810, 85 L.Ed. ___, was decided by the Supreme Court April 14, 1941, after the trial of this case had begun. The reliance of learned counsel for defendants here is chiefly on the decision in that case...

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