SIMPSON v. SOUTH WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 15765.

231 F.2d 59 (1956)

W. H. B. SIMPSON et al., Appellants, v. SOUTH WESTERN RAILROAD COMPANY and Central of Georgia Railway Company, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

March 20, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles J. Bloch, Bloch, Hall, Groover & Hawkins, Macon, Ga., for appellants.

John B. Miller, Gen. Counsel, Savannah, Ga., H. D. Russell, Walter A. Harris, Macon, Ga., Harris, Russell, Weaver & Watkins, Macon, Ga., Miller & Beckmann, Savannah, Ga., of counsel, for appellees.

Before BORAH, TUTTLE and BROWN, Circuit Judges.


TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying a motion to remand to the state court and an order dismissing the complaint originally filed by appellants, as minority stockholders of the South Western Railroad Company1 against their own corporation, its directors and officers and the Central of Georgia Railway Company, alleging that under the provisions of a Georgia statute they were proceeding to...

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