UNITED STATES v. PULLMAN CO.

Civil Action No. 994.

64 F.Supp. 108 (1945)

UNITED STATES v. PULLMAN CO. et al.

District Court, E. D. Pennsylvania.

Final Order January 4, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Holmes Baldridge, Sp. Asst. to Atty. Gen., for the United States.

Ralph M. Shaw, of Chicago, Ill., George Wharton Pepper, of Philadelphia, Pa., Seth W. Richardson, of Washington, D. C., Lowell M. Greenlaw, of Chicago, Ill., Frederick H. Spotts, of Philadelphia, and Guy A. Gladson, of Chicago, Ill., for defendants.

John Dickinson, of Philadelphia, Pa., S. R. Prince, of Washington, D. C., E. E. McInnis, of Chicago, Ill., and Jacob Aronson, of New York City, for intervening railroads.

Lewis M. Stevens, of Philadelphia, Pa., H. Eastman Hackney, of Pittsburgh, Pa., Benjamin H. Weisbrod, of Chicago, Ill., Andrew B. Young, of Philadelphia, and James W. Close, of Washington, D. C., for Standard Steel Spring Co.

Francis H. Scheetz, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Leo F. Tierney and Carlos A. Spiess, both of Chicago, Ill., for Glore, Forgan & Co.

Lemuel B. Schofield and W. Bradley Ward, both of Philadelphia, Pa., and Thurman Arnold and Arne C. Wiprud, Asst. Attys. Gen., for Otis & Co.

Robert J. Bulkley, of Cleveland, Ohio, and James F. Masterson, of Philadelphia, Pa., for Chesapeake & O. Ry. Co., New York, C. & St. L. R. Co. and Pere Marquette Ry. Co.

Paul W. Knox, of Philadelphia, Pa., and Leo J. Hassenauer, of Chicago, Ill., for Order of Railway Conductors, Pullman Clerks Association, Independent Pullman Workers Federation, and Pullman Company's Employees' Association of The Repair Shops.

Before BIGGS, MARIS, and GOODRICH, Circuit Judges, sitting pursuant to the Expediting Act (Act of Feb. 11, 1903, as Amended, 36 Stat. 854, 1167, 15 U.S.C.A. § 28).


GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

This case now comes to the Court upon an application for approval of a contract of sale. On March 22, 1945 the Court made an order permitting Pullman, Inc. to cause the Pullman Company to offer to "treat with the railroads or any other persons for the sale of the Sleeping Car Business and the properties connected therewith now owned by The Pullman Company." Pullman, Inc. was also authorized to treat for the sale of the stock of the Pullman...

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