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Louis Levy was born 62 years ago in the little town of Forkland, that lies near the Mississippi border in southern Alabama. At 17 he was in Yale. In 1901 he was at Columbia Law School, where one of his classmates was a heavyset, luxury-loving youth named Martin Thomas Manton. By 1910 he was the junior partner in the firm of Stanchfield & Levy. Stanchfield was one of the powerful Democrats who labored mightily to impeach Governor William Sulzer back in 1913. Louis Levy was then a well-groomed, sharp young lawyer. In this same year he was closely questioned...
...District Court found for the stockholder lawyer in one case, against him on technical grounds in the other, but the cases were fought on into the U. S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, where Martin Manton was senior judge. Judge Manton was already so hard-pressed for cash that he often borrowed money from friends...
Walking downtown one day with Louis Levy, he mentioned his need for money, mentioned a loan of $25,000, suggested that such a sum be loaned to his own business partner, the late James Sullivan...
Appeals, with Judge Manton writing the decisions, threw out both suits against American Tobacco Co., one judge dissenting. Judge Manton was convicted last June for conspiring to sell decisions of his court. And, as a sequel of the Manton conviction,' Judge John Knox of the United States District Court last week, wrote a 50-page decision ordering Louis Levy's disbarment...
...Levy stood mute, being ready, willing and anxious to accept the judicial favor of one he hoped, believed and expected would soon be his own and that of his clients...