Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance v. Shields

IRVING, R. KAUFMAN, District Judge. ■

This application is to compel answers by the witness Lawrence S. Waterbury, a defendant in this action, and a member of the engineering firm of defendant Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Hall & Macdonald. This is one of several related motions heard together.

The actions instituted in this court consist of seven separate suits for rescission and damages for misrepresentations brought against the underwriters and the engineering firm and its partners, arising out of the sale of Bellevue Bridge 4% Revenue Bonds, dated November 1, 1950. The misrepresentations, allegedly…