CHICAGO TITLE & TRUST CO. v. FOX THEATRES CORPORATION


182 F.Supp. 18 (1960)

CHICAGO TITLE & TRUST COMPANY, Complainant, v. FOX THEATRES CORPORATION, Defendant. Application of Kenneth STEINREICH and Leopold Porrino, as Trustees of Assets which were of Fox Theatres Corporation, and on behalf of beneficiaries of their Trust, comprising creditors and stockholders of Fox Theatres Corporation, now known respectively as Preferred Participants and Participants of said Trust, Petitioners, v. CHASE NATIONAL BANK OF CITY OF NEW YORK et al., Respondents.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

March 1, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hirson & Bertini, New York City, for petitioners; Jay Leo Rothschild, David G. Haskins, Arnold A. Hackmyer, New York City, of counsel.

Robert Aronstein, New York City, for First Nat. Bank of Georgia, as Trustee, etc., a creditor.

Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley, New York City, for respondents Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York and others, appearing specially for the purpose of making this motion; A. Donald MacKinnon, Janet P. Kane, New York City, of counsel.

Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, New York City, for respondents American Express Co., General Precision Equipment Corp. and National-Simplex-Bludworth, Inc.; Paul D. Miller, Leonard Garment, Bernard Nemtzow, New York City, of counsel.

Telsey & Lowenthal, New York City, for respondents Randforce Amusement Corp., Samuel Rinzler and Emanuel Frisch, as Executors under the Last Will and Testament of Louis Frisch, Deceased, and Rinfriss Corporation and Samuel Rinzler; Leon G. Telsey, New York City, of counsel.

Sherpick, Regan & Davis, New York City, for respondent Skouras Theatres Corp., appearing specially for the purpose of making this motion; William C. Woodson, New York City, of counsel.


FREDERICK van PELT BRYAN, District Judge.

This application is in the nature of a summary proceeding in an equity receivership commenced in this court in early 1932. It is before me on motions by various of the respondents to dismiss the petition on a variety of grounds.

The first objective of the proceeding is to vacate and set aside an order made in the equity receivership on November 17, 1933 by the late Martin Manton, then the Senior Circuit Judge of the...

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