CANNING v. STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 1647.

130 F.Supp. 697 (1955)

Harold M. CANNING, Plaintiff, v. STAR PUBLISHING COMPANY, a corporation of the State of Delaware, Alexis I. DuPont Bayard, Erwin M. Budner and William E. Taylor, Jr., Defendants.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

April 18, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel O. Hastings and Clarence W. Taylor (of Hastings, Lynch & Taylor), Wilmington, Del., for plaintiff.

William E. Taylor, Jr. and Donald C. Taylor, Wilmington, Del., for defendants.


LEAHY, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff, a resident of New Jersey, seeks against the Star Publishing Company, a Delaware corporation, rescission of a release agreement, and from individual defendants Alexis I. DuPont Bayard, Erwin M. Budner and William E. Taylor, Jr., damages for fraudulently inducing the execution of the release. This is a diversity case.

The facts: Plaintiff had been employed as Advertising Director of the defendant corporation under a contract of...

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