This appeal reveals a typical stock fraud upon the public which the Securities Act of 1933, 15 U.S.C. § 77a et seq., was designed to prevent. Vincent Schwenoha purchased in 1956 all the outstanding stock of the Belmont Divide Mining Corporation, a paper corporation that had ceased doing business in 1924. He and others devised a plan to sell this worthless stock to the public without...
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