ROCKEFELLER v. FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRUNSWICK

Civ. A. No. 469.

154 F.Supp. 122 (1957)

Nancy Carnegie ROCKEFELLER v. The FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF BRUNSWICK et al.

United States District Court S. D. Georgia, Brunswick Division.

July 10, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward E. Dorsey and James N. Frazer, of Powell, Goldstein, Frazer & Murphy, Atlanta, Ga., and Bernard Nightingale, of Nightingale & Liles, Brunswick, Ga., for plaintiff.

Charles L. Gowen and Chris B. Conyers, of Gowen, Conyers, Fendig & Dickey, Brunswick, Ga., for defendant bank as trustee.

Robert B. Troutman and Furman Smith, of Spalding, Sibley, Troutman, Meadow & Smith, Atlanta, Ga., for Glidden Co., intervenor.

Spencer Connerat and Malcolm Maclean, of Connerat, Dunn, Hunter, Cubbedge & Houlihan, Savannah, Ga., for Coleman C. Perkins, as guardian of Florence Carnegie Perkins, one of defendants, and for intervenors Coleman C. Perkins and Margaret Perkins Laughlin.

Alexander A. Lawrence, of Bouhan, Lawrence, Williams & Levy, Savannah, Ga., for Mrs. Lucy C. Ferguson, one of the defendants.

L. J. Bennet, of Reese, Bennet & Gilbert, Brunswick, Ga., for Mary Bayles Ricketson and others, defendants.

Weldon Shouse, of Shouse, Barker and Coplin, Lexington, Ky., for Margaret J. Wright and others.

William B. Watson, Jr., Gainesville, Fla., for Carter Carnegie, one of defendants.

Gertrude Schwartz, of Beer, Richards, Lane, Haller & Buttenwieser, New York City, for Andrew Carnegie III and Thomas M. Carnegie, defendants.


SCARLETT, District Judge.

This is an action by Mrs. Nancy Carnegie Rockefeller, for declaratory judgment and injunction, to prevent the carrying out of a mineral lease approved and ordered executed by the Superior Court of Camden County, Georgia.

The First National Bank of Brunswick was appointed successor trustee under the will of Mrs. Lucy C. Carnegie for certain property on Cumberland Island, Georgia. The trustee learned that there were minerals of great...

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