COOKE v. UNITED STATES

Civ. Nos. 996-999.

115 F.Supp. 830 (1953)

COOKE v. UNITED STATES (three cases). SPALDING v. UNITED STATES.

United States District Court D. Hawaii.

November 2, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anderson, Wrenn & Jenks, Heaton L. Wrenn and Marshall M. Goodsill, Honolulu, Hawaii, for plaintiffs.

H. Brian Holland, Asst. Atty. Gen., Lester L. Gibson, Andrew D. Sharpe, J. P. Garland, Erwin A. Goldstein, John W. Hussey, Spec. Assts. to the Atty. Gen., A. William Barlow, U. S. Atty., Honolulu, Hawaii, for defendant.


McLAUGHLIN, Chief Judge.

These four cases were consolidated because identical issues arise out of the fact that gifts of shares of stock in C. M. Cooke, Ltd. were made to the various plaintiffs in 1935. The nature of the interest of each plaintiff is determined by a deed of gift, all being substantially similar in form, but executed by different donors to the several plaintiffs, and differing in that the number of shares...

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