MATTHIES v. SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Nos. 284-285, 321, Dockets 25524, 25525, 25577.

270 F.2d 365 (1959)

George C. MATTHIES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SEYMOUR MANUFACTURING COMPANY et al., Defendants Appellants. George C. MATTHIES, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Earl B. BOIES et al., Defendants-Appellants (two cases).

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided September 9, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph P. Cooney, Hartford, Conn., for defendant-appellant Seymour Mfg. Co.

William H. Timbers, Darien, Conn., and James William Moore, New Haven, Conn. (Howard P. Fink, Rochester, N. Y., Barry H. Garfinkel, New York City, Robert T. Gilhuly, Fairfield, Conn., John F. Spindler, Stamford, Conn., and William Van Dercreek, Dallas, Tex., on the brief), for defendants-appellants Earl B. Boies, H. George Carroll, Raymond E. Hackett and Francis P. Schiaroli.

John K. Holbrook, New Haven, Conn. (William E. Mills, Jr., New York City, on the brief), for defendants-appellants Janet Pouch Redmond and Louise Jerome McMillan.

Jacob D. Zeldes, Bridgeport, Conn. (David Goldstein, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for defendant-appellant H. Meade Alcorn, Jr.

John S. Barton, Bridgeport, Conn., and Robert M. Fitzgerald, Litchfield, Conn. (Leo V. Gaffney, New Britain, Conn., John P. Hodgson, Curtis V. Titus and A. Reynolds Gordon, Bridgeport, Conn., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellee George C. Matthies.

Before HINCKS, LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.

These are consolidated appeals, permitted by us under 28 U.S.C. § 1292(b), from the Connecticut District Court's denial of motions to dismiss a class action against the present and former trustees of two Connecticut trusts and the attorneys who rendered services to the trusts, and to dismiss a derivative action against the directors of several related corporations whose stock was held by the trusts...

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