Los Angeles Trust Deed * Mortgage Exchange v. Securities And Exchange Commission

285 F.2d 162 LOS ANGELES TRUST DEED * MORTGAGE EXCHANGE, Trust Deed & Mortgage Exchange, Trust Deed & Mortgage Markets, David Farrell, Oliver J. Farrell, Roy A. Bonner, Thomas Wolfe, Jr., and Stanley C. Marks, Appellants, v. SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION, Appellee. No. 16995. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. Nov. 23, 1960, Rehearing Denied Jan. 10, 1961. Morgan Cuthbertson, Laguna, Cal., Paul J. Foley, Washington, D.C., for appellants. Thomas G. Meeker, Gen. Counsel, David Ferber, Asst. Gen. Counsel, John A. Dudley, Atty., SEC, Washington, D.C., F. E. Kennamer, Jr., Chief Enforcement Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee. Before CHAMBERS, Chief Judge, and BARNES and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Circuit Judge. 1 The Securities and Exchange Commission (referred to herein as SEC) instituted suit against three corporate defendants 1 and five individual officers thereof in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California. Originally the defendants were charged with issuing and selling securities in a fraudulent and deceitful manner, using the mails to effect sales of securities by fraud, and violating certain provisions of the…