ELLIS v. CARTER

No. 16942.

291 F.2d 270 (1961)

Manuel M. ELLIS, Appellant, v. Victor CARTER, etc., et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit.

May 31, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Greenwald, Holland, Landrum & Baim, Howard Marshall and Harold C. Holland, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellant.

Benjamin J. Goodman, and Horowitz & Howard, Los Angeles, Cal., and Louis Loss, Cambridge, Mass., for appellees.

Before BARNES, HAMLEY and KOELSCH, Circuit Judges.


HAMLEY, Circuit Judge.

This is an action for $1,315,000 damages and other relief based on allegations of fraud in connection with an asserted joint venture to acquire control of Republic Pictures Corporation. Plaintiff Manuel M. Ellis is a major stockholder of that company. Defendants Victor M. Carter and Herbert J. Yates are the chairman and former chairman, respectively, of the corporation's board of directors. Defendants Louis Boyar, Benjamin Weingard and Value...

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