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CONTINENTAL INS. CO. v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 609, 610.

259 U.S. 156 (1922)

CONTINENTAL INSURANCE COMPANY ET AL. v. UNITED STATES, READING COMPANY, ET AL. PROSSER ET AL., AS A COMMITTEE REPRESENTING HOLDERS OF COMMON STOCK OF THE READING COMPANY, v. UNITED STATES, READING COMPANY, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Restored for reargument February 27, 1922.

Reargued April 10, 11, 1922.

Decided May 29, 1922.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. R.C. Leffingwell, with whom Mr. Charles Heebner, Mr. Wm. Clarke Mason, Mr. L.D. Adkins and Mr. A.I. Henderson were on the brief, for the Reading Company.1

Mr. John M. Perry, with whom Mr. Arthur H. Van Brunt was on the brief, for Central Union Trust Company of New York.

Mr. Alfred A. Cook, with whom Mr. Frederick F. Greenman and Mr. Robert Szold were on the brief, for appellants in No. 609.

Mr. George W. Wickersham, with whom Mr. Edwin P. Grosvenor was on the brief, for Iselin et al., a committee representing preferred stockholders.

Mr. Joseph M. Hartfield, with whom Mr. Roberts Walker, Mr. J. DuPratt White and Mr. Allen McCarty were on the briefs, for appellants in No. 610.

Mr. Solicitor General Beck, with whom Mr. Attorney General Daugherty, Mr. Assistant to the Attorney General Goff and Mr. Abram F. Myers, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, were on the brief, for the United States.

Restored to docket for reargument February 27, 1922.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE TAFT, after stating the case as above, delivered the opinion of the court.

The appeals which brought this case here were taken under the Act of Congress approved February 11, 1903, c. 544, 32 Stat. 823, as modified by § 291 of the Judicial Code. Ordinarily the scope of our review of the decree of the District Court would be limited to the...

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