Livingston v. Falk

'Merrell, J.

It appears from the agreed statement of facts executed by the parties- to the controversy that plaintiffs’ testator, Crawford Livingston, in his lifetime, together with the defendants, Herbert V. Falk and Charles R. Dalgleish, and with one Walston H. Brown and one Albert N. Parlin, constituted themselves a protective committee for the stockholders of the United States Light and Heating Company (Maine), of which company equity receivers were appointed in 1914 by the United States District Court for the Western District of New York. The said committee reorganized the Maine company,…