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PALMER v. MASSACHUSETTS

No. 7.

308 U.S. 79 (1939)

PALMER ET AL., TRUSTEES, v. MASSACHUSETTS.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 6, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Edward R. Brumley, with whom Messrs. Fred N. Oliver, Willard P. Scott, Oscar M. Shaw, and R. Ammi Cutter were on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. Edward O. Proctor, Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts, with whom Mr. Paul A. Dever, Attorney General, was on the brief, for respondent.

MR. JUSTICE FRANKFURTER delivered the opinion of the Court.

October 23, 1935, opened another chapter in the long history of the vicissitudes of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.1 By filing a petition for reorganization under § 77 of the Bankruptcy Act (47 Stat. 1474, as amended by 49 Stat. 911 and 49 Stat. 1969, 11 U.S.C. §...

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