Opinion
No. 8580.
Argued on Motion to Dismiss March 20, 1944.
Decided March 21, 1944.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Delaware; John Biggs, Jr., Judge.
Proceeding in the matter of the reorganization of the Midland United Company, debtor. From an adverse decision, Daniel A. Gilbert and others appeal, and the debtor's trustees move to dismiss the appeal.
Motion granted.
Jason L. Honigman, of Detroit, Mich. (Milton J. Miller, of Detroit, Mich., on the brief), for appellants.
Max Swiren, of Chicago, Ill., for trustee of debtor.
Morton E. Yohalem, of New York City, for Securities and Exchange Commission.
Lloyd F. Thanhouser, of New York City (Ben W. Heineman, of Chicago, Ill., on the brief), for Clarence A. Southerland and Jay Samuel Hartt, trustees of estate of Midland Utilities Co., appellees.
Before MARIS, JONES, and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges.
The court is satisfied that the appeal in this case is wholly frivolous and was taken for the purpose of delay. Moreover the facts are such as to move us to award to the trustee of the debtor and to the trustees of Midland Utilities Company, as appellees, damages for the expense and delay occasioned by the appeal as we are empowered to do by Sec. 1010, Rev.Stats., 28 U.S.C.A. § 878. Compare Deming v. Carlisle Packing Co., 1912, 226 U.S. 102, 33 S.Ct. 80, 57 L.Ed. 140; Slaker v. O'Connor, 1929, 278 U.S. 188, 49 S.Ct. 158, 73 L.Ed. 258. Accordingly the appeal is dismissed and the said trustees as appellees are awarded as damages the cost of printing their brief and appendix in support of their motion to dismiss the appeal and in addition thereto the sum of $1,000 on account of the counsel fees incurred by them in connection with the appeal.