SPEED v. TRANSAMERICA CORPORATION

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

135 F.Supp. 176 (1955)

William S. SPEED et al., Plaintiffs, v. TRANSAMERICA CORPORATION, Defendant. Jack FRIEDMAN et al., Plaintiffs, v. TRANSAMERICA CORPORATION, Defendant. Philip ZAHN, suing individually and on behalf of all similarly situated holders of Class A Common Stock of Axton-Fisher Tobacco Company, Plaintiff, v. TRANSAMERICA CORPORATION, Defendant.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

On Form of Final Decree November 2, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel O. Hastings, Ayres J. Stockly and Clarence W. Taylor (Hastings, Lynch & Taylor), Wilmington, Del., and Arthur Frank and Claude L. Gonnet (Frank & Gonnet), New York City, for plaintiffs Friedman and Speed.

Samuel Handloff, Wilmington, Del., and Samuel J. Levinson and Frank Weinstein (of Weinstein & Levinson), New York City, for plaintiff Zahn.

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

Edwin D. Steel, Jr. and William S. Megonigal, Jr. (Morris, Steel, Nichols & Arsht), Wilmingon, Del., Gerhard A. Gesell, Abram J. Chayes, David E. McGiffert, and George H. Buschmann (Covington & Burling), Washington, D. C., and Thomas B. K. Ringe and J. Wesley Oler (Morgan, Lewis & Bockius), Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


LEAHY, Chief Judge.

Defendant's legal responsibility for damages was decided. Speed v. Transamerica Corp., D.C.Del., 99 F.Supp. 808. Col. E. Ennalls Berl was appointed Special Master, to find and determine the amount of plaintiffs' recovery, and to determine any personal defenses which defendant might urge.1

The Special Master commenced the performance of his duties.2

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