CONSOLIDATED GAS CO. OF NEW YORK v. HARDY


14 F.Supp. 223 (1936)

CONSOLIDATED GAS CO. OF NEW YORK et al. v. HARDY, U. S. Atty., et al., and three other cases.

District Court, S. D. New York.

February 22, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed and Frueauff, Burns, O'Brien & Ruch, all of New York City, for plaintiffs Federal Light & Traction Co. and others and Cities Service Co. and others.

Whitman, Ransom, Coulson & Goetz, of New York City (John W. Davis, William L. Ransom, and Henry Jaffee, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs Consolidated Gas Co. of New York and others.

John W. Davis, Horace R. Lamb, and Chauncey P. Williams, Jr., all of New York City (Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed and Le Boeuf, Winston, Machold & Lamb, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiffs United Corporation and others.

Lamar Hardy, U. S. Atty., of New York City (Francis H. Horan and John F. Davidson, Asst. U. S. Attys., both of New York City, of counsel), and Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for defendants Lamar Hardy, Albert Goldman, Leo J. Hickey, Francis J. Sinnott, and Albert C. Benninger, and for James M. Landis, Robert E. Healy, George C. Mathews, and James D. Ross, comprising the Securities and Exchange Commission, James A. Farley, Postmaster General, and Homer S. Cummings, U. S. Attorney General.

John J. Burns, Gen. Counsel, Securities and Exchange Commission, of Washington, D. C., and Thomas J. Lynch, of Chevy Chase, Md., for Robert G. Page, and for James M. Landis, Robert E. Healy, George C. Mathews, and James D. Ross, comprising the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Benjamin V. Cohen and Thomas G. Corcoran, Sp. Assts. to Atty. Gen., for James A. Farley, Postmaster General, and Homer S. Cummings, Attorney General.


Consolidated Case.

CAFFEY, District Judge.

The court judicially knows that the defendant Mulligan has ceased to be United States marshal for the Southern District of New York. In consequence, the action as to him has abated. Warner Valley Stock Co. v. Smith, 165 U.S. 28, 17 S.Ct. 225, 41 L.Ed. 621.

The sole ground for the motion to dismiss as to Marshal Benninger of the Eastern District is absence of the Attorney General...

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