SIMMONS v. WOLFSON

Nos. 20090, 20091.

428 F.2d 455 (1970)

Tawanda R. SIMMONS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis E. WOLFSON et al., Defendants-Appellees. Sandra Lee Simmons SHAW, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Louis E. WOLFSON et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

July 7, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John G. Hicks, Louisville, Ky., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Edgar A. Zingman, Louisville, Ky., for defendants-appellees; Wilson W. Wyatt, Robert C. Ewald, Wyatt, Grafton & Sloss, Louisville, Ky., on brief for appellees Wolfson, Gerbert, Staub, Baker, Hoover, Kosow and Sherman; Randolph A. Brown, R. Martin Rockwell, Louisville, Ky., on brief for appellee Estate of Alexander Rittmaster; Brown, Ardery, Todd & Dudley, Louisville, Ky., of counsel; David L. Waterman, Irwin G. Waterman, Louisville, Ky., on brief for appellee Archibald Kleven.

Before PHILLIPS, Chief Judge, and WEICK and PECK, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

In these consolidated appeals appellants ask us to reverse orders of the District Court granting motions to dismiss their complaints as amended for lack of jurisdiction.

Appellants were owners of shares of common stock in Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation, a corporation whose shares were registered and listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Appellants instituted separate, identical actions in the District Court under the provisions of the...

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