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MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY v. SLAYTON

Nos. 19250-19253.

407 F.2d 1078 (1969)

MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Rose SLAYTON et al., Appellees. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. ALLEGHANY CORPORATION et al., Appellees. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Betty LEVIN, Appellee. MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Appellant, v. Jane HARRIS et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Eighth Circuit.

Certiorari Denied June 2, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas J. Guilfoil, of Guilfoil, Symington, Montrey & Petzall, St. Louis, Mo., for appellant, Gerald M. Smith, Mark M. Hennelly and Gilbert P. Strelinger, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

Breck P. McAllister, of Donovan Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for appellees Alleghany Corp. and Empire Trust Co., Granville Whittlesey, Jr., and Robert H. Johnson, New York City, and G. Carroll Stribling, of Fordyce, Mayne, Hartman, Renard & Stribling, St. Louis, Mo., on the brief.

John Lowenthal, New York City, for appellees Betty Levin, Jane Harris and Nathan Stutch, Maxwell Brandwen of Szold, Brandwen, Meyers & Altman, New York City, and Roberts P. Elam, St. Louis, Mo., Sherin & Lodgen, Boston, Mass., and Ruth W. Friedman, New York City, on the brief.

Harold C. Ackert of Ackert & Tompkins, St. Louis, Mo., and Abraham L. Pomerantz and William E. Haudek of Pomerantz, Levy, Haudek & Block, New York City, for appellees Rose Slayton, Joseph M. Proskauer, Walter Mendelson, Alfred L. Rose and Dorothy B. Rose.

Before VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge, and MEHAFFY and HEANEY, Circuit Judges.

Certiorari Denied June 2, 1969. See 89 S.Ct. 1998, 1999, 2000.

VAN OOSTERHOUT, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal by Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (Mo-Pac) from final judgment requiring Mo-Pac to pay attorneys' fees of plaintiffs' counsel aggregating $548,161.00 and $41,926.13 expenses incurred by such attorneys, all in connection with four companion suits identified in the caption hereto, brought by plaintiffs against Mo-Pac and others as a class action on...

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