Louis Dreyfus Corporation, Formerly Doing Business as Leval & Company, Inc., a Corporation v. Landon v. Butler

This is an appeal by Louis Dreyfus Corporation (hereinafter “Dreyfus”) from a judgment in favor of Mrs. Sydney J. Butler, entered in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee following a memorandum decision by Chief Judge Brown. The complaint, based upon diversity of citizenship, was filed in that Court in 1968 by Drefus against Landon V. Butler, Mrs. Sydney J. Butler and others. The suit was filed to renew a judgment against Butler recovered in 1959 and based on his fraud in 1955. That phase of the matter was concluded by the granting of a motion for summary…