RUSKIN v. GRIFFITHS

No. 219, Docket 25317.

269 F.2d 827 (1959)

Lewis J. RUSKIN, Collateral Trustee, v. Charles H. GRIFFITHS, Trustee in Reorganization.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided August 26, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, New York City, Ruskin & Rosenbaum, Chicago, Ill. (Simon H. Rifkind, New York City, Harry H. Ruskin, Chicago, Ill., John E. Massengale, New York City, Irving Younger, Forest Hills, N. Y., of counsel), for appellant, Lewis J. Ruskin.

Frederick P. Close, White Plains, N. Y. (Martin Drazen, White Plains, N. Y., of counsel), for Trustee in Reorganization, appellee.

Louis J. Weinshenker, New York City (Edward A. Gorenstein, Walter Goodman, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for Richard Goodman, stockholder.

Richard Goodman, pro se.

Thomas G. Meeker, General Counsel, David Ferber, Asst. General Counsel, Pace Reich, Washington, D. C., Melvin Katz, Attorneys, SEC, Chicago, Ill., Richard V. Bandler, Special Counsel; Kiva Berke, New York City, Attorney, for Securities and Exchange Commission.

Before WASHINGTON, WATERMAN, and MOORE, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

On May 19, 1954 Lewis J. Ruskin, his wife, and the Rexall Drug Company sold all the stock of a retail drug store chain known as Ford Hopkins Company to General Stores Corporation. The purchase price was $2,800,000, of which $735,000 was to be paid in cash and the balance by notes to Ruskin and Rexall payable in installments until 1964. As security for these notes all the stock of Ford Hopkins and all the stock of Stineway Drug Company, another...

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