George Case Dies; Lawyer was 83
George Bowen Case, senior partner of the law firm of White & Case, 40 Wall Street, which he and the late J. DuPratt White founded in 1901, died yesterday at his home, 238 Lincoln Avenue, Englewood, N.J., after a long illness. He was 83.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., he was a son of Ermine Case Jr. and the former Mary Bowen. Mr. Case prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He received an A.B. degree from Yale, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, in 1894 and a law degree from Columbia in 1897.
He played on the Yale varsity baseball team for four years and was captain in his senior year. Some of the men who played on the team have credited him with having originated what is now known as the "squeeze play."
In World War I, Mr. Case served in Washington as a member of the American National Red Cross, with the rank of major general. He was a trustee of Phillips Academy for many years and had long been active as a Yale alumnus.
Mr. Case took part in the organization of the Bankers Trust in 1903, and his firm has continued to be its general counsel.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edward c. Bench; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife, who was Miss Mary Clarke at their marriage in 1898, died in 1947.
(from the New York Times, July 20, 1955)
George Bowen Case, senior partner of the law firm of White & Case, 40 Wall Street, which he and the late J. DuPratt White founded in 1901, died yesterday at his home, 238 Lincoln Avenue, Englewood, N.J., after a long illness. He was 83.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., he was a son of Ermine Case Jr. and the former Mary Bowen. Mr. Case prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He received an A.B. degree from Yale, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, in 1894 and a law degree from Columbia in 1897.
He played on the Yale varsity baseball team for four years and was captain in his senior year. Some of the men who played on the team have credited him with having originated what is now known as the "squeeze play."
In World War I, Mr. Case served in Washington as a member of the American National Red Cross, with the rank of major general. He was a trustee of Phillips Academy for many years and had long been active as a Yale alumnus.
Mr. Case took part in the organization of the Bankers Trust in 1903, and his firm has continued to be its general counsel.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edward c. Bench; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife, who was Miss Mary Clarke at their marriage in 1898, died in 1947.
(from the New York Times, July 20, 1955)
George Case Dies; Lawyer was 83
George Bowen Case, senior partner of the law firm of White & Case, 40 Wall Street, which he and the late J. DuPratt White founded in 1901, died yesterday at his home, 238 Lincoln Avenue, Englewood, N.J., after a long illness. He was 83.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., he was a son of Ermine Case Jr. and the former Mary Bowen. Mr. Case prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He received an A.B. degree from Yale, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, in 1894 and a law degree from Columbia in 1897.
He played on the Yale varsity baseball team for four years and was captain in his senior year. Some of the men who played on the team have credited him with having originated what is now known as the "squeeze play."
In World War I, Mr. Case served in Washington as a member of the American National Red Cross, with the rank of major general. He was a trustee of Phillips Academy for many years and had long been active as a Yale alumnus.
Mr. Case took part in the organization of the Bankers Trust in 1903, and his firm has continued to be its general counsel.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edward c. Bench; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife, who was Miss Mary Clarke at their marriage in 1898, died in 1947.
(from the New York Times, July 20, 1955)
George Bowen Case, senior partner of the law firm of White & Case, 40 Wall Street, which he and the late J. DuPratt White founded in 1901, died yesterday at his home, 238 Lincoln Avenue, Englewood, N.J., after a long illness. He was 83.
A native of Kansas City, Mo., he was a son of Ermine Case Jr. and the former Mary Bowen. Mr. Case prepared for college at Phillips Andover Academy. He received an A.B. degree from Yale, where he was a member of Skull & Bones, in 1894 and a law degree from Columbia in 1897.
He played on the Yale varsity baseball team for four years and was captain in his senior year. Some of the men who played on the team have credited him with having originated what is now known as the "squeeze play."
In World War I, Mr. Case served in Washington as a member of the American National Red Cross, with the rank of major general. He was a trustee of Phillips Academy for many years and had long been active as a Yale alumnus.
Mr. Case took part in the organization of the Bankers Trust in 1903, and his firm has continued to be its general counsel.
Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Edward c. Bench; five grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. His wife, who was Miss Mary Clarke at their marriage in 1898, died in 1947.
(from the New York Times, July 20, 1955)
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