IN RE MT. FOREST FUR FARMS OF AMERICA

Nos. 8802-8808, 8614, 8894.

122 F.2d 232 (1941)

In re MT. FOREST FUR FARMS OF AMERICA, Inc. GULF REFINING CO. OF LOUISIANA et al. v. FITZGERALD. COCKRELL et al. v. FITZGERALD (two cases).

Circuit Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

August 16, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Butzel, Eaman, Long, Gust & Bills, of Detroit, Mich. (Frank D. Eaman and Victor W. Klein, both of Detroit, Mich., J. S. Atkinson, of Shreveport, La., Tinsley Gilmer, of Lake Charles, La., and George C. Schoenberger, Jr., of Houston, Tex., of counsel), for Gulf Refining Co. of Louisiana and others.

Monroe & Lemann, of New Orleans, La., Butzel, Levin & Winston, of Detroit, Mich., and Battle, Levy, Fowler & Neaman, of New York City (Monte M. Lemann, of New Orleans, La., A. J. Levin, of Detroit, Mich., George Gordon Battle, of New York City, J. Blanc Monroe, of New Orleans, La., Henry H. Sills, of Detroit, Mich., Walter J. Suthon, Jr., of New Orleans, La., and Pearson E. Neaman, of New York City, of counsel), for Freeport Sulphur Co.

Oxtoby, Robison & Hull, of Detroit, Mich., and Herold, Cousin & Herold, of Shreveport, La. (Oscar C. Hull and Leo I. Franklin, both of Detroit, Mich., and Samuel L. Herold, Jr., and Sidney L. Herold, both of Shreveport, La., of counsel), for Ernest Cockrell.

Robert S. Marx, Carl Runge, Lawrence I. Levi, and Julian G. McIntosh, all of Detroit, Mich., Lazarus, Weil & Lazarus and Cobb & Saunders, all of New Orleans, La., Fraser, Effler, Shumaker & Winn, of Toledo, Ohio (Eldon S. Lazarus and Eugene D. Saunders, both of New Orleans, La., Ross W. Shumaker and Robert C. Dunn, both of Toledo, Ohio, Charles S. Abbott, of Ann Arbor, Mich., and Nichols, Wood, Marx & Ginter, of Cincinnati, Ohio, of counsel), for trustee, Frank Fitzgerald.

Before HICKS, HAMILTON, and MARTIN, Circuit Judges.


MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

This complicated litigation, involving millions of dollars, has been heard on the consolidated argument of nine cases and reaches us on appeal, in summary proceedings in a corporate reorganization in bankruptcy, in causes 8802-8808 from a judgment of the District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan against six appellants, Gulf Refining Company of Louisiana, Gulf Refining Company, Humble Oil and Refining Company, Shell Oil Company, Inc...

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