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GAUDIOSI v. MELLON

Nos. 12618, 12742-12745, 12759.

269 F.2d 873 (1959)

Louis GAUDIOSI, Charles Schwartz, and Randolph Phillips, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Similarly Situated, Appellants, v. Richard K. MELLON, Robert T. McCracken, C. Jared Ingersoll, Walter S. Franklin, James E. Gowen, Philip R. Clarke, James M. Symes, John A. Diemand, John B. Hollister, Lammot duP. Copeland, Donald Danforth, R. George Rincliffe, William L. Day, Otto N. Frenzel, Fred Carpi, David C. Bevan, James P. Newell, Directors and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a Corporation, Incorporated Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees. Louis GAUDIOSI, Charles Schwartz and Randolph Phillips, Individually and on Behalf of All Other Stockholders of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company Similarly Situated, Appellants v. Walter S. FRANKLIN, Richard K. Mellon, Robert T. McCracken, C. Jared Ingersoll, James E. Gowen, Philip R. Clarke, James M. Symes, John A. Diemand, John B. Hollister, Lammot duP. Copeland, Donald Danforth, R. George Rincliffe, William L. Day, Otto N. Frenzel, Fred Carpi, David C. Bevan, James P. Newell, Directors: Bayard H. Roberts and Pennsylvania Railroad Company, a Corporation Incorporated Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Appellees (five cases).

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided June 24, 1959.

Rehearing Denied August 28, 1959.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randolph Phillips, New York City, pro se.

Robert D. Abrahams, Philadelphia, Pa. (Abrahams & Loewenstein, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellants Gaudiosi and Schwartz.

Philip Price, Philadelphia, Pa. (Raymond W. Midgett, Jr., John J. Brennan, Barnes, Dechert, Price, Myers & Rhoads, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellees.

Before KALODNER and HASTIE, Circuit Judges, and EGAN, District Judge.

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

Two separate actions in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, arising out of a proxy contest for the election of six directors of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company ("Railroad") at its annual meeting on May 13, 1958, resulted in the six appeals now to be considered.

The first of the two actions (No. 24,456 below), was filed April 9, 1958, by Randolph Phillips, Louis Gaudiosi and Charles Schwartz...

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