In the Matter of Long Island Lighting Company Ennis M. Nichols v. Harry A. Alker

These appeals are from orders made in this voluminous litigation, which we shall consider seriatim, beginning with the order in No. 14890,

No. 14890.

This appeal is from an order, entered on October 25, 1956, denying the plaintiffs’ motion that the District Court “proceed to a trial of the issues of fraud and conspiracy set forth in the complaint.” The action was begun in October 1954, by shareholders of the Long Island Lighting Company against its directors and others, alleged to have been in complicity with them, and was to recover damages suffered by the shareholders because of the…