CRANE CO. v. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC.

Nos. 437, 438, 602 and 603, Dockets 73-2273, 73-2462, 73-2640 and 73-2641.

490 F.2d 332 (1973)

CRANE CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., Plaintiff-Appellant-Appellee, v. CRANE CO., Defendant-Appellee-Appellant. AMERICAN STANDARD, INC., Petitioner, v. Hon. Robert J. WARD, United States District Judge, and Crane Co., Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided December 19, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David W. Peck, New York City (Sullivan & Cromwell, George C. Kern, Jr., Edward W. Keane and Robert M. Osgood, New York City, of counsel), for American Standard, Inc.

John W. Castles, 3d, New York City (Lord, Day & Lord, Michael J. Murphy, Pomerantz, Levy, Haudek & Block; Abraham L. Pomerantz and William E. Haudek, New York City, of counsel), for Crane Co.

Before LUMBARD, FRIENDLY and FEINBERG, Circuit Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge.

Four years after this court's decision in Crane Co. v. Westinghouse Air Brake Co., 419 F.2d 787 (2 Cir. 1969), cert. denied, 400 U.S. 822, 91 S.Ct. 41, 27 L.Ed. 2d 50 (1970), we find the combatants, Crane Co. (Crane) and American Standard, Inc. (Standard), in a Brobdingnagian procedural imbroglio that has prevented any progress in carrying out our decision.1 During the week of...

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