RAMSBURG v. AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY OF ILLINOIS

No. 11610.

231 F.2d 333 (1956)

Ella RAMSBURG, Original Plaintiff, and Earl H. C. Lurkins, Vernon Lurkins, Edward F. Mueller and Hazel F. Mueller, Ralph Rohlfing and Lillian Garnet Rohlfing, Ave L. Vico and Charlotte Vico, Frank Rille, Herbert E. Frank, Bernice Lurkins and Mary Rille, Intervenors, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. AMERICAN INVESTMENT COMPANY OF ILLINOIS, a Delaware Corporation, and Domestic Finance Corporation, a Delaware Corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

January 27, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold M. Keele, Chicago, Ill., for appellant.

John B. Martineau, Chicago, Ill., Clayton J. Barber, Springfield, Ill., for appellee.

Before DUFFY, Chief Judge, and LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.


LINDLEY, Circuit Judge.

Defendants move to dismiss the appeal from an order denying the motion of plaintiffs for a temporary injunction which they sought as stockholders of defendant Domestic Finance Corporation, to restrain a proposed merger of that Company with defendant American Investment Company of Illinois. Both are incorporated under the laws of Delaware. The complaint averred that American had, through divers means, obtained some 80 per cent of the common...

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