UNITED STATES v. ANACONDA WIRE & CABLE CO.


57 F.Supp. 106 (1944)

UNITED STATES ex rel. SHERR v. ANACONDA WIRE & CABLE CO. et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

August 3, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis M. Shea, Asst. Atty. Gen., James B. M. McNally, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Laurence H. Axman, Asst. U. S. Atty., of New York City, Joseph M. Friedman, of Washington, D. C., Jess G. Schiffmann, of New York City, and Tobias G. Klinger, of Cleveland, Ohio, of counsel), for the United States.

Chadbourne, Wallace, Parke & Whiteside, of New York City (Horace G. Hitchcock, and Dwight R. Collin, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant Anaconda Wire & Cable Co.

Moses B. Sherr, of New York City, pro se.


LEIBELL, District Judge.

The relator, Moses B. Sherr, brought this qui tam action on December 23, 1942, against the Anaconda Wire and Cable Company and some of its officers. Only the corporation was served. The action was started two days after an indictment had been filed by a Grand Jury sitting in the United States District Court at Fort Wayne, Indiana. That Grand Jury heard evidence during the month of December 1942, concerning alleged fraudulent practices of the...

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