SHACKLETON v. FOOD MACHINERY AND CHEMICAL CORP.

Civ. A. No. 942-D.

166 F.Supp. 636 (1958)

Dorothy Sells SHACKLETON, Plaintiff, v. FOOD MACHINERY AND CHEMICAL CORPORATION, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of the Laws of the State of Delaware, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Illinois.

September 4, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grace White, LaPeer, Mich., Allen Pretzman, Columbus, Ohio, Sebat, Swanson, Banks & Jones, Ralph J. Swanson, Danville, Ill., for plaintiff.

Horace E. Gunn, of Bookwalter, Carter, Gunn & Hickman, Danville, Ill., for defendant.


PLATT, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, Dorothy Sells Landsheft Shackelton, a citizen of Michigan, filed suit to enforce the provisions of Clause 6 of a written contract executed October 26, 1928, between her brothers, Ogden, Millar and Neal Sells, and John Bean Manufacturing Company, predecessor of defendant, Food Machinery and Chemical Corporation, an organization incorporated in Delaware. By the language of the contract the Sells brothers obligated themselves individually...

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