BLACKFORD v. POWELL

No. 5422.

151 F.2d 392 (1945)

BLACKFORD et al. v. POWELL et al. GUARANTY TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK et al. v. SEABOARD AIR LINE RY. CO. et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

October 11, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bayly Chapman, of Baltimore, Md. (Llewellyn S. Richardson, of Norfolk, Va., on the brief), for appellants.

W. R. C. Cocke, of Norfolk, Va., and Leonard D. Adkins, of New York City (Harold J. Gallagher and Edwin S. S. Sunderland, both of New York City, Leon T. Seawell, of Norfolk, Va., Irwin L. Tappen, of New York City, George M. Lanning, of Norfolk, Va., Carlyle Barton, of Baltimore, Md., Theodore S. Garnett and Robert D. Ruffin, both of Norfolk, Va., Smith & Cross, of Baltimore, Md., Meredith & Meredith, of Richmond, Va., Paul R. Kach, of Baltimore, Md., Willard R. Ashburn, of Norfolk, Va., and Edward E. Watts, Jr., of New York City, on the brief), for appellees.

Before SOPER and DOBIE, Circuit Judges, and HAYES, District Judge.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal in the receivership proceeding for the reorganization of the Seaboard Air Line Railway Company is taken from an order of the District Court of April 27, 1945, dismissing a petition of the appellants which asked the court to direct the receivers to pay out of the funds in their hands to the holders of the outstanding 5% Adjustment Mortgage Gold Bonds of the Railway Company certain unpaid interest that had matured on the bonds prior to 1931 and...

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