WEBSTER & ATLAS NAT. BANK OF BOSTON v. PALMER

No. 249.

111 F.2d 215 (1940)

WEBSTER & ATLAS NAT. BANK OF BOSTON v. PALMER et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

April 16, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert H. Davison, of Boston, Mass. (Haussermann, Davison & Shattuck and Oscar W. Haussermann, all of Boston, Mass., on the brief), for appellant.

Hermon J. Wells, of New Haven, Conn. (J. H. Gardner, Jr., of New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellees.

Henry Parkman, Jr., Corp. Counsel, and Robert H. Hopkins, Asst. Corp. Counsel, both of Boston, Mass., amici curiae.

Before SWAN, CLARK, and PATTERSON, Circuit Judges.


CLARK, Circuit Judge.

In October, 1935, the New Haven Railroad filed its petition for reorganization in the District Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. In June, 1936, its trustees rejected the lease under which the New Haven had rented the lines of the Old Colony Railroad Company. Immediately thereafter, the Old Colony petitioned for reorganization in the same court and the trustees of the New Haven...

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