IN RE LEHIGH VALLEY R. CO.

No. 21011.

34 F.Supp. 753 (1940)

In re LEHIGH VALLEY R. CO. et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

August 7, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maurice Bower Saul, Harry E. Sprogell, and Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for petitioners.

Robert T. Swaine, Littleton Groom, and Cravath, de Gersdorff, Swaine & Wood, all of New York City, for Bondholders' Committee.

W. Meade Fletcher, Jr., of Washington, D. C., for Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

Edward A. Kallick, U. S. Atty., and Thomas J. Curtin, Esq., Asst. U. S. Atty., both of Philadelphia, Pa., for U. S.

Hovey C. Clark, Curtis F. Heath, and Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, all of New York City, and Charles Myers, Robert V. Massey, Jr., and Barnes, Myers & Price, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for intervening banks and corporate trustees assentors to plan.

Meyer Abrams and Shulman, Shulman & Abrams, all of Chicago, Ill., Vincent A. O'Connor, of New York City, J. Howard Reber, of Philadelphia, Pa., Samuel P. Puner, Abraham Marcus, and Sabin & Puner, all of New York City, Isidore H. Schweidel, of Philadelphia, Pa., Cecil Page, Stewart M. Seymour, and Thomas Kiernan, all of New York City, for intervening objecting bondholders.

Edith A. Merritt, a bondholder, pro se.

Before MARIS, Circuit Judge, and WELSH and KALODNER, District Judges.


MARIS, Circuit Judge.

The Lehigh Valley Railroad Company and three of its subsidiary corporations, the Lehigh Valley Rail Way Company, Lehigh Valley Railroad Company of New Jersey, and Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company, on August 7, 1939, filed in this court petitions averring that they are unable to meet their debts, matured or about to mature, and that they desire to carry out a plan of adjustment, dated August 25, 1938, under the provisions of...

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