SPEED v. TRANSAMERICA CORP.

Civ. A. Nos. 480, 468, 490.

100 F.Supp. 461 (1951)

SPEED et al. v. TRANSAMERICA CORP. FRIEDMAN et al. v. TRANSAMERICA CORP. ZAHN v. TRANSAMERICA CORP.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

September 20, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel O. Hastings, Ayres J. Stockly and Thomas R. Hunt (Hastings, Stockly, Walz & Wise), all of Wilmington, Del., Arthur Frank and Claude L. Gonnet (Frank & Gonnet), of New York City, for plaintiffs Speed and others.

Samuel J. Levinson, Frank Weinstein and Robert Bernstein, all of New York City, and Samuel Handloff, of Wilmington, Del., for plaintiffs Friedman and others.

Daniel O. Hastings, Ayres J. Stockly and Thomas R. Hunt (Hastings, Stockly, Walz & Wise), all of Wilmington, Del., Arthur Frank and Claude L. Gonnet (Frank & Gonnet), of New York City, for plaintiff Zahn.

Hugh M. Morris, Edwin D. Steel, Jr. and William S. Megonigal, Jr. (Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht), all of Wilmington, Del., for defendant.

Roger S. Foster, General Counsel, Milton P. Kroll, Asst. General Counsel, and Alexander Cohen, Attorney, all of Washington, D.C., for Securities and Exchange Commission for amici curiæ.

William H. Foulk and Herbert L. Cobin of Wilmington, Del., for interveners.


LEAHY, Chief Judge.

Argument was had on the proposed decrees for judgments of plaintiffs. I have studied the transcript of that argument and the briefs of the parties on the objections and the right of the interveners to become formal parties to these causes.

1. In the Speed case defendant raises what seems to me to be a highly technical point of procedure, i e., I should not give judgment for plaintiffs on count 1 because no order was ever entered vacating...

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