Legal Opinion
Nichols v. Alker
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided February 14, 1956No. 39, Docket 23580PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff appeals from an order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York (Galston, J.) dismissing the complaint on the ground of res judicata and striking it from the files of the District Court as sham and false. The complaint was filed by Ennis M. Nichols, individually, and as representative of a group of common stockholders of the pre-reorganized Long Island Lighting Company (“Long Island”), and was brought against four groups of defendants: (1) officers and directors of the pre-reorganized Long Island (Alker, Barrett, Blakeslee,…
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