UNITED STATES v. ASCHER

No. 479-M.

41 F.Supp. 895 (1941)

UNITED STATES et al. v. ASCHER et al.

District Court, S. D. California, Central Division.

September 29, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Fleet Palmer, U. S. Atty., of Los Angeles, Cal., for the United States.

Alexander Macdonald, Fred E. Pettit, Jr., John L. Rowland, and Macdonald & Pettit, all of Los Angeles, Cal. (Claude E. Hamilton, Jr., Gen. Counsel, Clifford J. Durr, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Hans A. Klagsbrunn, Counsel, and Max Hersh, Atty., Reconstruction Finance Corporation, all of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiff Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Hahn & Hahn, Herbert L. Hahn, and Louis R. Vincenti, all of Pasadena, Cal., for defendants Morris Anolik and others.

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher and Norman S. Sterry, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Meta W. Buckbee and John C. Buckbee.

Clarence A. Shuey and Orrick, Dahlquist, Neff & Harrington, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Robinson, Price & Macdonald, of Oakland, Cal., for defendants Engineers Investments, Inc., and others.

Leonard J. Meyberg, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendants Mary Bedford Jones and Henry Bedford Jones.

Nichols, Cooper & Hickson, George H. McBurney, pro se, and A. L. Hickson, all of Pomona, Cal., for defendants McBurney.

Harry M. Rosenblum, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Leon Rosenblum.

James W. Mack, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Arnold Schaak.

Meserve, Mumper & Hughes, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant George Shumway Suffel.

Neice & Crane and DeForest M. Neice, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Catherine M. Werner.

Jay T. Cooper, of San Francisco, Cal., for defendant Jim Wong.

J. Russell Myers, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Murray S. Humphrey.

Mayock & Lester, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Helen M. Radford.

Hill, Morgan & Bledsoe, A. J. Hill, Charles P. McCarthy, and Kenneth K. Wright, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant A. M. Johnson.

Dryer, Richards & Page, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Edward J. Smith.

John D. Hoyt, of Los Angeles, Cal., for defendant Georgia Samuelson Lewis.

Ben Koenig, of Hollywood, Cal., for defendant Mrs. Winifred Shank.


McCORMICK, District Judge.

On December 20, 1934, this class action by plaintiffs for themselves and on behalf of all other creditors was filed in this court to enforce the liability of California-residing stockholders of Central Republic Trust Company (formerly Central Republic Bank and Trust Company), an Illinois state bank, to the creditors of said bank, pursuant to Section 6, Article XI of the Constitution of the State of Illinois, Smith-Hurd Stats., and Section...

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