WEIGEL v. SHAPIRO

No. 78-2628.

608 F.2d 268 (1979)

John WEIGEL, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Howard SHAPIRO, Jacqueline Shapiro, J. W. O'Connor and Weigel Broadcasting Company, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided October 29, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James S. Gordon, Chicago, Ill., for plaintiff-appellant.

Bernard Weisberg, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before CUMMINGS and WOOD, Circuit Judges, and CAMPBELL, Senior District Judge.


CUMMINGS, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, a Wisconsin citizen, brought this diversity action derivatively for and on behalf of defendant Weigel Broadcasting Company, an Illinois corporation. The three individual defendants are also citizens of Illinois. Weigel Broadcasting operates television station WCIU in Chicago. Its capital stock consists of 4,588 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $100 and 181,669 shares of common stock with a par value of $1. The verified...

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