MAYFLOWER HOTEL STOCK. P. C. v. MAYFLOWER HOTEL CORP.

No. 9714.

173 F.2d 416 (1949)

MAYFLOWER HOTEL STOCKHOLDERS PROTECTIVE COMMITTEE et al. v. MAYFLOWER HOTEL CORPORATION et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided January 26, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. D. Worth Clark, of Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. John Lewis Smith, Leslie C. Garnett, Samuel F. Beach, George Eric Rosden, Jerome J. Dick and John Lewis Smith, Jr., all of Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellants.

Mr. Edmund L. Jones, of Washington, D.C., with whom Messrs. Nelson T. Hartson and Howard Boyd, both of Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellees, Mayflower Hotel Corporation, et al. Mr. Roger J. Whiteford, of Washington, D. C., with whom Mr. Philip S. Peyser, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees, Hilton Hotels Corporation, et al.

Before EDGERTON, CLARK, and WILBUR K. MILLER, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a final judgment of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia granting motions to dismiss an amended complaint filed by appellants for injunction, receivership, accounting and to set aside a contract for fraud against the appellees herein.

The appellants brought suit in equity as stockholders of Mayflower Hotel Corporation and on behalf of Mayflower Hotel Stockholders Protective Committee...

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