Legal Opinion · Concurrence

Dufenhorst v. Aitkin

Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

Decided December 19, 1939No. 6926Published

1ConcurrenceEvans, Circuit Judge

Approving the reversal, I nevertheless cannot subscribe to the view that the court is powerless to protect, through civil contempt proceedings, one, or a group, who as creditor parties before the court, are working with and under the direction of the court to reorganize an insolvent debt- or, against a third party or group of third parties, who, in order to discourage bondholders and to depress bond prices that they may purchase bonds at greatly depressed prices, circularize the bondholders with false and defamatory statements, known to be false and injurious to the plan which the court has…

2Cases cited21 opinions

  1. Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1911
  2. Ex Parte TerrySupreme Court of the United States · 1888
  3. Mueller v. NugentSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
  4. Ex Parte RobinsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
  5. Bessette v. W. B. Conkey Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1904

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