GUARANTY TRUST CO. v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO.

No. 214.

14 F.Supp. 555 (1935)

GUARANTY TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK et al. v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO. et al.

District Court, E. D. Virginia, Norfolk Division.

July 11, 1934, and September 12, 13, 16-18, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Hume Taylor (of Williams, Loyall & Taylor), of Norfolk, Va., and William Booth and Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Gordon, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Massey Concrete Products Corporation and Union Switch & Signal Co.

Edward Duffy and Carlyle Barton, both of Baltimore, Md., and Theodore S. Garnett, of Norfolk, Va., for Continental Trust Co., trustee.

Humes, Buck, Smith & Stowell, of New York City (Baird, White & Lanning, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for New York Trust Co. and others, trustees.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, of New York City (Hughes, Little & Seawell, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for Guaranty Trust Co. of New York and others, trustees.

J. Hume Taylor (of Williams, Loyall & Taylor), of Norfolk, Va., for Pullman Co.

T. H. Willcox (of Willcox, Cooke & Willcox), of Norfolk, Va., and E. V. Mitchell, of Chicago, Ill., for Continental Casualty Co.

T. H. Willcox (of Willcox, Cooke & Willcox), of Norfolk, Va., for H. E. Gibbons, R. J. McCreary Lumber Co., Maintenance Equipment Co., and Western Fruit Express Co.

John W. Oast, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., for Arms-Yager Ry. Car Co.

Braden Vandeventer (of Vandeventer, Eggleston & Black), of Norfolk, Va., for Swift & Co.

J. W. Eggleston (of Vandeventer, Eggleston & Black), of Norfolk, Va., and John M. Daniel, Atty. Gen. of South Carolina, for South Carolina State Highway Department.

T. H. Willcox (of Willcox, Cooke & Willcox), of Norfolk, Va., and Henry T. Stetson, of New York City, for Pintsch Compressing Co.

T. H. Willcox (of Willcox, Cooke & Willcox), of Norfolk, Va., for Woodstock Slag Corporation.

T. H. Willcox (of Willcox, Cooke & Willcox), of Norfolk, Va., and Doggett, McCollum, Howell & Doggett, of Jacksonville, Fla., for A. B. Floyd.

W. R. C. Cocke and B. P. Holland, Jr., both of Norfolk, Va., and Harold J. Gallagher, of New York City, for receivers of Seaboard Air Line Ry. Co.

James Elliott Heath, of Norfolk, Va., special master in Seaboard Air Line receivership.


I. In the Matter of the Claim of Massey Concrete Products Corporation.

Upon hearing of exceptions filed by Massey Concrete Products Corporation to that portion of the special master's report denying priority under the six months' rule to certain items of a claim for supplies filed by it with the receivers of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company. The claim involved several items, and the special master found those which represented supplies for new construction...

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