SMITH v. WEMBLEY INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. CA-0876.

441 So.2d 392 (1983)

Lillian Pulitzer SMITH et al. v. WEMBLEY INDUSTRIES, INC. et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

November 10, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Stone, Paul L. Zimmering, David W. Gruning, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for Lillian Pulitzer et al.

Martin L.C. Feldman, Robert A. Kutcher, Fred Bronfin, Bronfin, Heller, Feldman, Steinberg & Berins, Leon H. Rittenberg, Jr., New Orleans, for Wembley Industries, Inc. and Samuel C. Pulitzer.

Jack M. Weiss, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for Sidney C. Pulitzer and Arthur C. Pulitzer.

Herbert J. Garon, Garon, Brener & McNeely, New Orleans, for A.M. Wolff and Anthony J. Peres.

Before REDMANN, C.J., and KLEES and BYRNES, JJ.


REDMANN, Chief Judge.

"Plaintiffs' petition for mandamus and preliminary injunction, construed in the light of the earlier petitions, relies exclusively on the theory that a 1964 ten-year voting trust (that authorized a ten-year extension to be created the same day the trust was created) terminated in 1974 because the same-day extension violated then R.S. 12:33's limitation of voting trusts to ten years by attempting to create in effect a 20-year trust. That petition...

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