IN RE CHICAGO & N. W. RY. CO.

No. 60448.

35 F.Supp. 230 (1940)

In re CHICAGO & N. W. RY. CO.

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

September 11, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles M. Thomson, of Chicago, Ill., trustee of property of debtor, pro se.

Luther M. Walter, of Chicago, Ill., for debtor.

Sidley, McPherson, Austin & Burgess, of Chicago, Ill. (by Kenneth F. Burgess, of Chicago, Ill.), and Douglas F. Smith, and George Ragland, Jr., all of Chicago, Ill., for Life Insurance Group Committee.

Oliver & Donnally, of New York City (by Fred N. Oliver, of New York City), and E. E. Boyner, of Washington, D. C., for Mutual Savings Bank Group Committee.

Meyer Abrams and Norman Asher, both of Chicago, Ill., for Interveners Helen S. Asher and others.

Lee Walker, of Chicago, Ill., and Russell L. Snodgrass and A. Marvin Braverman, both of Washington, D. C., for Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

John M. MacGregor, of New York City, and Knapp, Allen & Cushing, of Chicago, Ill., for Harry W. Harrison and others, preferred stockholders.

Edward C. Kohlsaat, Harry N. Wyatt, and Richard H. Levin, all of Chicago, Ill., for Protective Committee for Holders of Common Stock.

Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City (by Leonard D. Adkins, of New York City), and Mayer, Meyer, Austrain & Platt, of Chicago, Ill. (by Herbert A. Friedlich, of Chicago, Ill.), for George W. Bovenizer and others, a committee representing holders of collateral notes.

Sullivan & Cromwell, of New York City (by Robert E. Houston, Jr., of New York City), and Poppenhusen, Johnston, Thompson & Raymond, of Chicago, Ill. (by Anan Raymond, of Chicago, Ill.), for Bank of New York & Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts, of New York City and Charles O. Rundall, of Chicago, Ill., for Bankers Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, of New York City, and Babcock, Gilruth, Beck & McConnell, of Chicago, Ill. (by Irwin T. Gilruth and Milton S. Applebaum, both of Chicago, Ill.), for Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown, of New York City (by Alfred H. Phillips, of New York City, and William D. Kerr, of Chicago, Ill.), for Chemical Bank & Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Mitchell, Taylor, Capron & Marsh, of New York City (by John B. Marsh, of New York City), and Winston, Strawn & Shaw, of Chicago, Ill. (by Anthony L. Michel, of Chicago, Ill.), for City Bank Farmers Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, of New York City, and Tenney, Harding, Sherman & Rogers, of Chicago, Ill. (by Henry F. Tenney, of Chicago, Ill.), for Guaranty Trust Co. of New York, mortgage trustee.

Davies, Auerbach, Cornell & Hardy, of New York City (by Orrin G. Judd and Herbert A. Heerwagen, both of New York City), and Isham, Lincoln & Beale, of Chicago, Ill. (by James P. Dillie, of Chicago, Ill.), for Irving Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Beekman, Bogue, Stephens & Black, of New York City (by Leslie B. Soper, of New York City), and Pope & Ballard, of Chicago, Ill. (by Ferris E. Hurd, of Chicago, Ill.), for New York Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Stewart & Shearer, of New York City, and Wilson & McIlvaine, of Chicago, Ill. (by William B. Hale, of Chicago, Ill.), for United States Trust Co., mortgage trustee.

Edward G. Buckland, of New Haven, Conn., for Railroad Credit Corporation.

Sterling Pierson, of New York City, for Equitable Life Assur. Soc. of United States.

Paul E. Blanchard, Walter C. Kirk, and Scott M. Hovey, all of Chicago, Ill., for trustees of Leland Stanford, Jr., University, and Armour & Co. Employes' Pension Fund.

S. C. Murray, of Chicago, Ill., for New York Cent. R. Co.

M. J. Haberkorn, of Chicago, Ill., for Pennsylvania R. Co.


BARNES, District Judge.

On December 19, 1939, there was filed in the office of the clerk of this court a copy of a report and order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, dated December 12, 1939, approving a plan of reorganization of Chicago and North Western Railway Company and, on April 8, 1940, there was filed in the office of the clerk of this court a supplemental report and order of the Commission, dated April 2, 1940, modifying the said plan of reorganization...

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