IN RE REPUBLIC GAS CORPORATION


35 F.Supp. 300 (1936)

In re REPUBLIC GAS CORPORATION.

District Court, S. D. New York.

June 10, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Randolph Montgomery, Trustee.

Mudge, Stern, Williams & Tucker, of New York City (Joseph V. Kline, of New York City, of counsel), for American Nat. Bank, City Nat. Bank, and National Bank of Commerce, bondholders.

White & Case, of New York City (Joseph M. Hartfield and Ernest G. Fifield, both of New York City, of counsel), for Bondholders Protective Committee.

Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City (Donald C. Swatland, of New York City, of counsel), for Continental Supply Co.

Fred W. Moore, of Houston, Tex. (L. F. Huttenlocher, of New York City, of counsel), for R. Wayne Lawler, receiver of Moody Seagrave Co.

Chadbourne, Stanchfield & Levy, of New York City (C. B. Hughes and David S. Hecht, both of New York City, of counsel), for Manufacturers Trust Co., Trustee of Bonds of the Debtor Corporation.

Scudder, McCoun, Stockton & Kerfoot, of New York City (Branch P. Kerfoot, of New York City, of counsel), for debtor.

L. W. Lougee, of New York City, for Empire Power Corporation.

Vinson, Elkins, Sweeton & Weems, of Houston, Tex. (Lewis N. White, of Houston, Tex., of counsel), for Republic Natural Gas Co., successor in interest to the debtor herein.

Clarence E. Lott, of Phoenix, Ariz., for First Nat. Bank of Negaunee, Mich., a bondholder, and for several other banks in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and also for some bondholders in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Ben A. Matthews, of New York City, Special Master.


CAFFEY, District Judge.

A bondholders protective committee asks compensation of $50,000 and a reorganization committee, compensation of $20,000. Approval of disbursements, heretofore made or remaining unpaid, is also requested. I shall deal first with the compensation applications.

A hearing on numerous applications, including those of the committees, was held in August, 1935 (Minutes, pp. 527-827). I disposed of most of those in eight memoranda. The last...

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