CRUMMER COMPANY v. DU PONT

No. 15067.

223 F.2d 238 (1955)

The CRUMMER COMPANY and R. E. Crummer & Company, Appellants, v. Jessie Ball du PONT et al., As Trustees, Etc., Of The Last Will And Testament of Alfred I. duPont, Deceased, et al., Appellees. Clyde C. PIERCE and Clyde C. Pierce Corporation, Appellants & Cross-Appellants, v. R. E. CRUMMER & COMPANY et al., Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 21, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atkinson, Atkinson, Folsom & Williams, Tallahassee, Fla., Rogers, Towers, Bailey & Jones, Jacksonville, Fla., for cross-appellants.

Francis P. Whitehair, DeLand, Fla., Chris Dixie, Houston, Tex., Taylor Jones, and Wm. H. Rogers, Jacksonville, Fla., Warren E. Hall, Jr., DeLand, Fla., Roger A. Prestwood, Andalusia, Ala., Clyde W. Atkinson, Tallahassee, Fla., for appellants.

H. M. Voorhis, Orlando, Fla., John W. Donahoo, Jacksonville, Fla., Chester Bedell, Jacksonville, Fla., Ralph M. McLane, Asst. Atty. Gen., Donald Russell, President University of S. C., Columbia, S. C., Harry E. King, Winter Haven, Fla., Henry P. Adair, and Clarence G. Ashby, Jacksonville, Fla., W. H. Poe, Orlando, Fla., Maguire Voorhis & Wells, Orlando, Fla., Richard W. Ervin, Atty. Gen., for appellees.

Robert Staufer, Winter Haven, Fla., King & Staufer, Winter Haven, Fla., of counsel, for W. R. Gall.

Mitchell, Donahoo & Rogers, Jacksonville, Fla., Bedell & Bedell, Jacksonville, Fla., of counsel, for Cummer Sons Cypress Co.

Davisson F. Dunlap, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellees, duPont Trustees, et al., and Jessie Ball duPont.

Charles R. Scott, Jacksonville, Fla., for appellee, St. Joe Paper Co.

Before HUTCHESON, Chief Judge, and RIVES and TUTTLE, Circuit Judges.


HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Filed December 19, 1941, under the anti-trust laws of the United States,1 by the two Crummer companies, dealers in Municipal bond issues, as plaintiffs, against the Ball duPont group, Jessie Ball duPont, her husband, Edward Ball, and the other defendants named therein, and three other groups known and referred to respectively as Leedy-Pierce, Mansfield-Fuller, and Gall-Cummer, the complaint alleged damages to the...

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