IN RE ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RY. CO.

No. 8497.

53 F.Supp. 914 (1944)

In re ST. LOUIS SOUTHWESTERN RY. CO.

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

February 9, 1944.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John R. Turney, of Washington, D. C., and Lashly, Lashly, Miller & Clifford, of St. Louis, Mo., for St. Louis Southwestern R. Co., debtor.

A. H. Kiskaddon, General Counsel, and John W. Murphy, Asst. General Solicitor, of St. Louis, Mo., for Berryman Henwood, trustee.

Bryan, Williams, Cave & McPheeters, of St. Louis, Mo., for St. Louis Union Trust Co.

Rathbone, Perry, Kelly & Drye, of New York City, and Anderson, Gilbert, Wolfort, Allen & Bierman, of St. Louis, Mo., for Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co.

Edward W. Bourne (of Alexander & Green), of New York City, and Fordyce, White, Mayne, Williams & Hartman, of St. Louis, Mo., for Bankers Trust Co.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, of New York City, and Thompson, Mitchell, Thompson & Young, of St. Louis, Mo., for Guaranty Trust Co. of New York.

Milbank, Tweed & Hope, of New York City, and Nagel, Kirby, Orrick & Shepley, of St. Louis, Mo., for Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York, trustee.

Paul D. Miller (of Mudge, Stern, Williams & Tucker), of New York City, for Chase Nat. Bank of City of New York, creditor.

Alfred H. Phillips (of Chadbourne, Hunt, Jaeckel & Brown), of New York City, and Nagel, Kirby, Orrick & Shepley, of St. Louis, Mo., for Chemical Bank & Trust Co.

T. M. Pierce and S. Mayner Wallace, both of St. Louis, Mo., for Mississippi Valley Trust Co.

Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballatine, of New York City, for President and Directors of Manhattan Co.

James Piper and Piper, Watkins & Avirett (including Piper, Carey & Hall), all of Baltimore, Md., and Henry S. Caulfield and Clarence M. Barksdale, both of St. Louis, Mo., for E. Stanley Glines Committee.

Edward Greensfelder, of St. Louis, Mo., for Horace A. Davis, Benjamin S. Lichenstein and Sylvan Gotschal, a Committee on behalf of Holders of First Mortgage Bonds of Central Arkansas & Eastern R. Co.

Harry Hoffman, of New York City, for Joseph Dembitzer Committee and for Anglo-Continental Treuhand, A. G., and Mondiale Handels-und Verwaltungs, A. G., Bondholders, etc.

Tom R. R. Ely and Brandom Hope, both of St. Louis, Mo., for Joseph Dembitzer Committee.

Wayne Ely, of St. Louis, Mo., for Anglo-Continentale Treuhand, A. G., and Mondiale Handels-und Verwaltungs, A. G., Bondholders, etc.

Malcolm Mecartney and James J. Kilgallon, both of Chicago, Ill., and Malcolm I. Frank and Wm. R. Orthwein, Associate Counsel, both of St. Louis, Mo., for Mason B. Starring, Jr., and others.

Walter E. Meyer, of New York City, pro se and for other stockholders.

R. Walston Chubb, of St. Louis, Mo., for Walter E. Meyer.

Ben C. Dey, of San Francisco, Cal., Geo. L. Buland, of New York City, and Claude O. Pearcy, of St. Louis, Mo., for Southern Pac. Co.

Thomas F. McDonald, of St. Louis, Mo., for Railroad Credit Corporation.


MOORE, District Judge.

The St. Louis Southwestern Railway Company, a Missouri corporation, the principal debtor in the proceeding, filed its petition in this Court on December 12, 1935, under Section 77, Chapter VIII of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 205, alleging that it was "unable to meet its debts as they mature, and that it desires to effect a plan of reorganization." On the same day, an order of the Court was entered approving the petition and a like...

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