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LANDELL v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY

No. 12428.

223 F.2d 316 (1955)

George A. LANDELL, Executor of E. A. Landell, Deceased, et al., etc., Appellants, v. NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided April 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Robert W. Lishman, Washington, D. C., with whom Messrs. Edward Brown Williams and Leonard J. Calhoun, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellants.

Mr. Porter R. Chandler, New York City, of the bar of the Court of Appeals of New York, pro hac vice, by special leave of Court, with whom Messrs. Bernard G. Ostmann and Joseph M. Jones, Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before PRETTYMAN, BAZELON and BASTIAN, Circuit Judges.

PER CURIAM.

Appellants, acting as a committee of minority stockholders of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company, a federal corporation organized and existing under an act of Congress of July 2, 1864,1 brought this civil action. The gravamen of the complaint was that a reorganization of the railroad in 1896 was illegal. Appellants said they had protested the reorganization continuously since that date. However that may be, they did not...

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