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SCHECHTMAN v. WOLFSON

141 F.Supp. 453 (1956)

Philip SCHECHTMAN, Plaintiff, v. Louis E. WOLFSON, J. A. B. Broadwater, E. B. Gerbert, David A. Goodkind, Robert E. Harvey, Alexander Rittmaster, Edward L. Teale, Cecil Wolfson, Samuel Wolfson, H. W. Pierce, Robert C. Baker, Robert L. Purcell, Doran S. Weinstein, M. F. Bloomenstiel, Thomas A. Scott, R. O. Baum, Chester A. Beckley, William Denny, Mason Bogen, Paul H. Hershey, C. A. Pitts, Carl McFarlin, Sr., A. I. Savin, Marshal G. Staub, Bernice Fitzgibbon, New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Devoe & Raynolds Company, Inc., and Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

June 1, 1956.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kaufman, Imberman & Taylor, New York City, for plaintiff, Irwin M. Taylor, New York City, of counsel.

Manning, Hollinger & Shea, New York City, for defendants, Edwin A. Lewis, William E. De Bevoise, New York City, of counsel.

DIMOCK, District Judge.

This is a motion for an award of counsel fees to plaintiff's attorney in a stockholder's derivative action.

Plaintiff is a stockholder in defendant Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corporation (hereinafter called Merritt). He sues on behalf of the corporation to compel three named defendants, two, Louis Wolfson and Alexander Rittmaster, being directors of Merritt and one, Bernice Fitzgibbon, being alleged to be under the control of defendant...

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