AUSTRIAN v. WILLIAMS

No. 81, Docket 20348.

159 F.2d 67 (1946)

AUSTRIAN et al. v. WILLIAMS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Writ of Certiorari Granted February 10, 1947.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carl J. Austrian, of New York City (Austrian & Lance and Saul J. Lance, George H. Schwartz, and Isadore H. Cohen, all of New York City, on the brief), for appellants.

Milton Pollack, of New York City (Sullivan & Cromwell and Emery H. Sykes and William Piel, Jr., all of New York City, on the brief), for appellees Harrison Williams et al. and Walter E. Sachs et al.

Horace R. Lamb, of New York City (Le-Boeuf & Lamb and Craigh Leonard and James O'Malley, Jr., all of New York City, on the brief), for appellees James F. Fogarty and Herbert C. Freeman.

Hawkins, Delafield & Longfellow, of New York City (Lewis L. Delafield, Barent L. Visscher, and Thomas A. Purcell, all of New York City, of counsel), for appellees John B. Niven et al.

Roger S. Foster, Sol., Robert S. Rubin, Asst. Sol., and Arnold R. Ginsburg and Lawrence M. Greene, Attys., all of Philadelphia, Pa., for the Securities and Exchange Commission, amicus curiæ.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


Writ of Certiorari Granted February 10, 1947. See 67 S.Ct. 675.

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action for the recovery of corporate assets in the Southern District of New York in their capacity of trustees of Central States Electric Corporation, a Virginia corporation now in reorganization in the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Virginia. To that court they owe their appointment, as well as authority to proceed...

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