OLD COLONY BONDHOLDERS v. NEW YORK, N. H. & H. R. CO.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ely, Bradford, Thompson & Brown, Joseph B. Ely, and Richard Ely, all of Boston, Mass. (Seibert & Riggs, of New York City, of counsel), for appellant Protective Committee for Bonds of Old Colony Railroad Company.

Robert H. Davison, of Boston, Mass. (Haussermann, Davison & Shattuck, of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for appellant Webster & Atlas National Bank of Boston, Trustee.

Damon E. Hall and Rutherford E. Smith, both of Boston, Mass. (Hurlburt, Jones, Hall & Bickford, of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for appellant Mutual Savings Bank Group Committee for Boston Terminal Co. Bonds.

Henry W. Anderson and Lewis F. Powell, Jr., both of Richmond, Va., and Curtiss K. Thompson, of New Haven, Conn. (Hunton, Williams, Anderson, Gay & Moore, of Richmond, Va., and Parmelee & Thompson and Thompson, Weir & MacDonald, all of New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellant Institutional Group for Boston Terminal Bonds.

Clarence A. Barnes, Atty. Gen., and George P. Drury, Asst. Atty. Gen., both of Boston, Mass., for appellant Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Oliver & Donnally, of New York City (Fred N. Oliver and Willard P. Scott, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Mutual Sav. Bank Group.

Ropes, Gray, Best, Coolidge & Rugg, of Boston, Mass. (Charles A. Coolidge, of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for appellee Old Colony R. Co. Plan Committee.

Stewart & Shearer, of New York City (William A. W. Stewart and McCready Sykes, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee United States Trust Co. of New York, Trustee of Harlem River & Port Chester Mortgage.

Root, Clark, Buckner & Ballantine, of New York City (William P. Palmer and Philip E. Gregg, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Bank of New York, Trustee under New England R. Co. Mortgage.

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

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl, of New York City (Edwin S. S. Sunderland, Judson C. McLester, Jr., James L. Homire and William D. Tucker, Jr., all of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Insurance Group.

Choate, Hall & Stewart, of Boston, Mass. (John L. Hall, James Garfield, and Charles H. Stockton, all of Boston, Mass., of counsel), for appellee New York, N. H. & H. R. Co., debtor.

White & Case, of New York City (Fitzhugh McGrew and Jesse E. Waid, both of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Bankers Trust Co., Trustee First and Refunding Mortgage.

Davies, Auerbach, Cornell & Hardy, of New York City (H. C. McCollom, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Irving Trust Co., Trustee 6% Collateral Trust Indenture.

Beers & Beers, of New Haven, Conn. (Edmund Ruffin Beckwith, of New York City, of counsel), for appellee Protective Committee for Holders of Boston and New York Air Line First Mortgage 4% Bonds.

Before L. HAND, SWAN, and FRANK, Circuit Judges.