Lonsdale v. Speyer

Full title: JOHN G. LONSDALE et al., as Trustees of ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RAILWAY…

Court: Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Dec 31, 1940

31 N.E.2d 512 (N.Y. 1940)

31 N.E.2d 512

Opinion

Argued November 25, 1940

Decided December 31, 1940

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department, VALENTE, J.

Frederick Evan Crane, Edward S. Seidman, Robert G. Starr, Frank A. Thompson and Ivan H. Light for appellants.

Henry W. Taft, Ralph Wolf, G. Forrest Butterworth, Jr., Wolfgang S. Schwabacher, Sydney C. Weinstein, David Dow and Maurice Ravage for James Speyer et al., comprising the firm of Speyer Co., respondents.

Joseph M. Proskauer, Alfred Jaretzki, Jr., J. Alvin Van Bergh and William Piel, Jr., for John F. Strauss, Jr., et al., comprising the firm of J. W. Seligman Co., respondents.

William Morton Carden for Edward N. Brown, respondent.

Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: LEHMAN, Ch. J., LOUGHRAN, FINCH, RIPPEY, SEARS, LEWIS and CONWAY, JJ.