LINCOLN PRINTING CO. v. MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES CO.

Equity No. 11654. Bankruptcy No. 49923.

17 F.Supp. 799 (1936)

LINCOLN PRINTING CO. v. MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES CO. In re MIDDLE WEST UTILITIES CO.

District Court, N. D. Illinois, E. D.

December 16, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Taylor, Miller, Busch & Boyden, of Chicago, Ill., for Martin Lindsay, Howland S. Davis, and Harry C. Edmonds, common stockholders' committee.

Cutting, Moore & Sidley, of Chicago, Ill., for C. Frederick Childs, Adolphe Brissevain, Robert Stevenson, and Rawleigh Warner, committee for protection of holders of preferred stock.

William J. Froelich and Burry, Johnstone, Peters & Dixon, all of Chicago, Ill., for Daniel Green, trustee.

Samuel A. & Leonard B. Ettelson, of Chicago, Ill., for Sidney B. Pollak, intervener.

Kirkland, Fleming, Green, Martin & Ellis, of Chicago, Ill., for Charles S. Dewey, George W. Borg, Henry E. Cooper, and J. C. Neff, Marvin Pool, noteholders' committee, and Walter Bachrach, trustee for Commonwealth Light & Power Co., intervener.

Bell, Boyd & Marshall, of Chicago, Ill., for Leonard S. Florsheim, trustee for Inland Power & Light Co., intervener.

Walter V. Fackler, Ross Langdon, Thomas V. Sullivan, and Gannon, McGinn & Whitson, all of Chicago, Ill., for Mandel H. Harris and Ed Cohen, creditors.

James B. Alley, General Counsel, Max O'Rell Truitt, Solicitor, and William Radner, all of Washington, D. C., and Lee Walker, Rex Bullinger, and Arthur A. Armstrong, all of Chicago, Ill., for Reconstruction Finance Corporation, intervener.

Patrick J. Lucey, Weil & Tell, Frank J. Loesch, Tom D. McKeown, and Frank L. Hume, all of Chicago, Ill., for Patrick J. Lucey, intervener.

Tarnopol, Flamm & Sideman, of Chicago, Ill., for A. Homan, S. Isenberg, and J. Gold, interveners.

White & Case, of New York City, for Bankers Trust Co., secured creditor.

Mayer, Meyer, Austrian & Platt, of Chicago, Ill., for Continental Illinois Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Chicago, First Nat. Bank of Chicago, and Central Republic Trust Co., secured creditors.

Sims & Stransky, of Chicago, Ill., for common stockholders' committee.

Jacobson, Merrick, Nierman & Silbert, of Chicago, Ill., for Theresa Boyle, Alfred Tuvin, and Samuel Goldberg, petitioning creditors.

Schuyler, Weinfeld & Hennessy and Burry, Johnstone, Peters & Dixon, all of Chicago, Ill., for Charles McCulloch and Patrick Hurley, receivers in equity proceeding.

Essington & McKibbin, of Chicago, Ill., for plaintiffs in equity proceeding.


WILKERSON, District Judge.

In the opinion filed on September 29, 1936 (In re Middle West Utilities Co. [D. C.] 17 F.Supp. 359), the court reserved ruling on the applications for allowances for services in the equity suit. Those applications were made by the receiver and his counsel, and by the solicitors for the complainant, and for the executors of the estate of Edward N. Hurley, one...

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