ASTOR v. TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY

Nos. 65 Civ. 3078, 1632 and 1421.

306 F.Supp. 1333 (1969)

John ASTOR et al., Plaintiffs, v. TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY et al., Defendants. And 51 other actions. Betty B. ALEXANDER et al., Plaintiffs, v. TEXAS GULF SULPHUR COMPANY et al., Defendants. And 19 other actions. William H. DARRAUGH, Jr. et al., Plaintiffs, v. Francis G. COATES et al., Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 31, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

White & Case, New York City, for Texas Gulf Sulphur Co., Fogarty, Mollison, Crawford, Darke, Coates, Stephens, Murray, Huntington, Kline, Holyk, and Clayton.

Reavis & McGrath, New York City, for Astor and Hamill.

Frisch & Goldfluss, New York City, for Blum.

Knapp & Berson, New York City, for Borrack.

Louis Kipnis, New York City, for Brynin.

Abraham I. Markowitz, New York City, for Cloherty, and others.

Pomerantz, Levy, Haudek & Block, New York City, for Colonial Realty Corp. and Fink.

Sidney B. Silverman, New York City, for Darrough, and others.

Kreindler & Kreindler, New York City, for Dyer and Woolley.

Irwin Neugeboren, Laurelton, N. Y., for Fisher.

Frackman & Robins, New York City, for Frackman, and others.

Michael R. Russakow, New York City for Alexander, and others.

Leventritt, Lewittes & Bender, New York City, for Bank of Bermuda.

Lipper, Keeley, Katcher, Lowey & Dannenberg, New York City, for Freiman, Cannon and Green.

Robert M. Gottschalk, New York City, for Greenberg.

Wolf, Popper, Ross, Wolf & Jones, New York City, for Bieber, Moore and Jahss, and others.

Coudert Brothers, New York City, and R. Richard Roberts, Houston, Tex., for Sam Houston L. I. Co.

Rosoff & Rosoff, New York City, for Frey.

Ryan, Temkin & Ginsberg, New York City, for Glatstein, and others.

Lawrence Greenapple New York City, for Greenapple.

Windels, Merritt & Ingraham, New York City, for Brown, Griffin, Kinder and MacIver.

Unterberg & Unterberg, New York City, for Gross.

Andrew A. Gore, New York City, for Harris.

R. Richard Roberts, Houston, Tex., for Helm.

Nemser & Nemser, New York City, for Jagerman, and others.

James S. Eddy, Sacramento, Cal., for King.

Francis C. Leffler, New York City, for Kuck.

Edelberg, Miller & Rothenberg, Los Angeles, Cal., for Lehman.

DeZorett & Venner, New York City, for Marchesano.

Milberg & Levy, New York City, for Weinberger and Marmon.

Stuart D. Perlman and Alan M. Hoffman, New York City, for Manchik.

Fred Parks and Hugh E. McGee, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Meisner.

William Rosenfeld, New York City, for Moran, and others.

Edward J. Brady, Hale, Hynes & Brady, New York City, for Nicholson.

Herbert L. Scharf, New York City, for O'Brien.

Norton, Wood & Moore, Jacksonville, Fla., for Padgett.

Armende Lesser, New York City, for Pomerantz.

William Linden, Henry Wimpfheimer, New York City, for Simon, and others.

Miles & Miles, Brooklyn, N. Y., for Shapiro, and others.

Theodore Propp, New York City, for Siegel.

L. A. Greene, Jr., Houston, Tex., for Spradlin.

Goldstein & Turetsky, New York City, for Vogel.

Speiser, Shumate, Geoghan & Krause, New York City, for Weill.

Leonard J. Reich, New York City, for Wellisz.

Edwin S. Shapiro, New York City, for White and Wells.

Levin, Kreis, Ruskin & Gyory, New York City, for Winters, and others.

Burton R. Abrams and Nathan Engelstein, Chicago, Ill., for Wise.

Koch, Lankenau & Schwartz, New York City, for Zack.

Pomeranz & Pomeranz, New York City, for Zweben.


OPINION

BONSAL, District Judge.

These are motions for summary judgment. Defendants Texas Gulf Sulphur Company (TGS), and Charles Fogarty, Richard Mollison, David Crawford, Kenneth Darke, Francis Coates, Claude Stephens, John Murray, Earl Huntington, Harold Kline, Walter Holyk, and Richard Clayton (the individual defendants, unless otherwise identified individually by name) move for summary judgment, seeking dismissal of plaintiffs' actions in Astor, Alexander...

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