OTIS & CO. v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 9059.

155 F.2d 522 (1946)

OTIS & CO., Appellant, v. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD COMPANY, Pennsylvania, Ohio & Detroit Railroad Company, Martin W. Clement, George H. Pabst, Jr., Walter S. Franklin, James E. Gowen, C. Jared Ingersoll, Richard K. Mellon, Leonard T. Beale, J. F. Deasy, J. R. Downes, F. J. Fell, Thomas S. Gates, Robert T. McCracken, Thomas Newhall, George J. Adams, F. W. Hankins, and H. W. Schotter.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided May 29, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert J. Bulkley, of Washington, D. C. (James F. Masterson, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Russell Hardy and Herbert G. Pillen, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief) for appellant.

John Dickinson and R. Sturgis Ingersoll, both of Philadelphia, Pa. (Albert Ward, R. Sturgis Ingersoll, and Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.

Before MARIS, GOODRICH, and McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This is an action by a shareholder suing the corporate and individual defendants for alleged negligence in failing to take steps which the plaintiff alleges were necessary in the exercise of reasonable care in the course of the refunding of certain corporate indebtedness. There is little, if any, dispute between the parties as to the rules of law applicable. The appellant makes the point that the court's conclusion did not properly apply the law to the...

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