IN RE ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO.

No. 7004.

46 F.Supp. 120 (1942)

In re ST. LOUIS-SAN FRANCISCO RY. CO.

District Court, E. D. Missouri, E. D.

July 25, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larkin, Rathbone & Perry, of New York City, and Fordyce, White, Mayne, Williams & Hartman, of St. Louis, Mo., for Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. and Daniel K. Catlin, trustees under Prior Lien Mortgage of St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

Milbank, Tweed & Hope, of New York City, for Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York and John A. Aid, trustees under the Consolidated Mortgage of St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

Nagel, Kirby, Orrick & Shepley, of St. Louis, Mo., for Third Nat. Bank of City of New York and John A. Aid, trustees under the Consolidated Mortgage of St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

White & Case, of New York City, and Bryan, Williams, Cave & McPheeters, of St. Louis, Mo., for Bankers Trust Co. and Walter W. Smith, trustees under Refunding Mortgage of Kansas City, F. S. & M. Ry. Co.

Bingham, Dana & Gould, of Boston, Mass., and Blayney, Bedal, Cook & Fairfield, of St. Louis, Mo., for Old Colony Trust Co., trustee under General Mortgage of Kansas City, M. & B. R. Co.

Hunton, Williams, Anderson, Gay & Moore, of Richmond, Va., and Chasnoff, Willson & Cunningham, and Roscoe Anderson, all of St. Louis, Mo., for John W. Stedman and others, Prior Lien Mortgage Bondholders' Committee.

Cravath, deGersdorff, Swaine & Wood, of New York City, and Carter, Bull & Garstang, of St. Louis, Mo., for Frederick H. Ecker and others, Consolidated Mortgage Bondholders' Committee.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, of New York City, and Charles P. Williams, of St. Louis, Mo., for James H. Brewster, Jr., and others, Kansas City, F. S. & M. Ry. Co. Refunding Mortgage Bondholders' Committee.

Russell L. Snodgrass, of Washington, D. C., and Hennings, Green, Henry & Evans, of St. Louis, Mo., for Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

William J. Kane, of Baltimore, Md., for Railroad Credit Corporation.

Willkie, Owen, Otis, Farr & Gallagher, of New York City, for Committee of Preferred Stockholders of St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

William V. Hodges, of New York City, and Jesse McDonald, of St. Louis, Mo., for debtor St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.

Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, of Washington, D. C. (Designated by Executive Order No. 7263, Jan. 4, 1936, to act in respect of interest or claims of United States).

Frank A. Thompson, of St. Louis, Mo., for trustees, St. Louis-San Francisco Ry. Co.


MOORE, District Judge.

The St. Louis-San Francisco Railway Company, a Missouri corporation, the debtor, on May 16, 1933, filed a petition in this court stating that its property was then in possession of receivers appointed by this court; that it was unable to meet its debts as they matured and that it desired to effect a Plan of Reorganization under Section 77 of the Act of July 1, 1898, entitled "An act to establish a uniform system of bankruptcy throughout the...

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