RUSKIN v. GRIFFITHS

No. 129, Docket 24765.

250 F.2d 875 (1958)

Lewis J. RUSKIN, Petitioner-Appellant, v. Charles H. GRIFFITHS, Trustee of General Stores Corporation, Debtor, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided January 6, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon H. Rifkind, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City (Harry H. Ruskin, Chicago, Ill., and John E. Massengale and Stephen Wise Tulin, of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, on the brief), for Lewis J. Ruskin, Ford Hopkins Co., Stineway Drug Co., Sargent's Drug Store, and Wright & Lawrence, Inc., appellants.

Martin Drazen and Charles H. Griffiths, White Plains, N. Y., reorganization trustee (Frederick P. Close, White Plains, N. Y., on the brief), for appellee Charles H. Griffiths.

Louis J. Weinshenker, New York City, (Edward A. Gorenstein and Walter Goodman, Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for appellee Richard Goodman, a creditor and stockholder.

David Ferber, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C. (Thomas G. Meeker, Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., Richard V. Bandler, Kiva Berke, New York City, and Joseph Gildenhorn, Attys., Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for appellees Securities and Exchange Commission.

Edward A. Rothenberg, New York City, for appellee Florence Brill, a stockholder.

John F. Davidson, New York City, for appellee Stockholders' Protective Committee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, MOORE, Circuit Judge, and SMITH, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

These are appeals from two orders of the bankruptcy court in reorganization proceedings under Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act which were ultimately ordered for this defendant. See In re General Stores Corp., D.C.S.D. N.Y., 129 F.Supp. 801, affirmed General Stores Corp. v. Shlensky, 2 Cir., 222 F.2d 234, affirmed 350 U.S. 462...

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