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O'Connor v. Bankers Trust Company

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Jul 7, 1938
278 N.Y. 649 (N.Y. 1938)

Opinion

Argued May 25, 1938

Decided July 7, 1938

Appeal from the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, First Department.

Alfred A. Cook, Harold Nathan, Clarence J. Shearn, Ben Herzberg, Henry Cohen and Clarence J. Shearn, Jr.) for appellants.

John W. Davis, Joseph M. Proskauer, Bethuel M. Webster, Robert N. West, J. Alvin Van Bergh, Edwin F. Blair and Henry C. Smith for Bankers Trust Company et al., respondents.

Wilkie Bushby and V. Henry Rothschild, 2nd, for President and Directors of Manhattan Company, respondent.



Judgment affirmed, with costs; no opinion.

Concur: LEHMAN, O'BRIEN, HUBBS, LOUGHRAN and RIPPEY, JJ. Taking no part: CRANE, Ch. J., and FINCH, J.


Summaries of

O'Connor v. Bankers Trust Company

Court of Appeals of the State of New York
Jul 7, 1938
278 N.Y. 649 (N.Y. 1938)
Case details for

O'Connor v. Bankers Trust Company

Case Details

Full title:JAMES F.T. O'CONNOR, as Comptroller of the Currency et al., Appellants, v…

Court:Court of Appeals of the State of New York

Date published: Jul 7, 1938

Citations

278 N.Y. 649 (N.Y. 1938)
16 N.E.2d 302

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