PARIS v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO.

No. 215, Docket 20922.

167 F.2d 834 (1948)

PARIS et al. v. METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

May 10, 1948.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Proskauer, Rose, Goetz & Mendelsohn, of New York City (Burton A. Zorn, Eugene Eisenmann, and Phillip W. Haberman, Jr., all of New York City, and Howard Lichtenstein, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for defendants-appellants.

Boudin, Cohn & Glickstein, of New York City (Louis B. Boudin, Murray I. Gurfein, and Sidney E. Cohn, all of New York City, and Daniel W. Meyer, of Washington, D. C., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellees.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein, Atty. Gen. of New York, for Robert E. Dineen, Superintendent of Insurance of New York, of Syracuse, N. Y., amicus curiæ.

Before L. HAND, AUGUSTUS N. HAND, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.


AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiffs are individual insurance agents employed by the defendant Metropolitan, a New York corporation. These agents are suing in their own behalf and for other agents similarly situated to obtain a declaratory judgment awarding to them a fund of $792,318.12 deposited by Metropolitan in Manufacturers Trust Company to the credit of the defendants North, Nicholas and Berney as escrowees. The plaintiffs were chosen by two agents...

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