BIRD v. STEIN

No. 16826.

258 F.2d 168 (1958)

Mrs. Brynia BIRD and Mrs. Ethel Gold, Appellants, v. Lawrence STEIN and Sam Stein, Individually as Co-Partners of the Partnership Known as Stein Brothers, and L. B. Stein, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 9, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank E. Everett, Jr., C. Delbert Hosemann, Brunini, Everett, Grantham & Quin, Vicksburg, Miss., for appellants.

W. C. Keady, Roy D. Campbell, Jr., Edward J. Bogen, Farish, Keady & Campbell, Greenville, Miss., for appellee.

Before RIVES, BROWN and WISDOM, Circuit Judges.


WISDOM, Circuit Judge.

This is a suit for an accounting by two sisters against their brother as trustee. The sisters, Mrs. Brynia Stein Bird and Mrs. Ethel Stein Gold, describe their brother, Lawrence Stein, as "a modern Esau who in sheep's clothing * * * deprived them of their rightful inheritance". Lawrence accuses his sisters of wanting to "crush out [his] economic life in order that they may plunder the product of a lifetime's toil".

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