IN RE EQUITABLE OFFICE BLDG. CORPORATION

No. 78476.

83 F.Supp. 531 (1949)

In re EQUITABLE OFFICE BLDG. CORPORATION.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

January 7, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Olin, Murphy & Redmond, of New York City, pro se and as Attys. for Empire Trust Co.

McDermott, Turner & Hart, of New York City, for Depositary Empire Trust Co.

Gerdes & Montgomery, of New York City, for Wertheim & Co. and other debenture holders.

Hardy, Stancliffe & Hardy, of New York City, for Sterling, Grace & Co. and other debenture holders.

Emanuel Redfield, of New York City, for debenture holders Frank and Lichtenstein.

Scribner & Miller, of New York City, pro se and as Attys. for Amott Committee and Douglas Vought.

Wagner, Quillinan, Wagner & Tennant and Tachna & Pinkussohn, all of New York City, pro se and as Attys. for Granger Committee.

Brower, Brill, Ennis & Gangel, of New York City, pro se and as Attys. for 120 Broadway Committee.

Wickes, Riddell, Bloomer, Jacobi & McGuire, of New York City, pro se and as Attys. for Stockholders' Committee and for Blake Snyder.

Reeves, Todd, Ely & Beaty, of New York City, for Louis B. Altreuter.

T. Roland Berner, of New York City, pro se and as Atty. for Adelaide H. Knight and William P. Doyle.

Aranow, Brodsky, Einhorn & Dann, of New York City, for Horowitz, Abrons and other Stockholders.

Herman B. Zipser, of New York City, for Jacob Beyer, stockholder.

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of New York City, for Brooks, Harvey & Co., Inc. and Urban Servicing Co.

Greenbaum, Wolff & Ernst, of New York City, for Sydney Bernheim.

Douglass Newman, of New York City, for Equitable Office Bldg. Corporation.

Sherpick, Gilbert, Regan & Davis, of New York City, for Thomas E. Huser.

Buchter, Rathheim, Abrams & Holz, of New York City, for Robert H. Armstrong.

Carb, Reichman & Luria, of New York City, for George A. Hammer, Walter A. Cashel, H. S. Ford and O. J. Gette.

Henry S. Hooker, of New York City, and McNamara & Seymour, Associate Attys. of New York City, for trustee.


KNOX, Chief Judge.

The debtor in this proceeding owns the land and building at 120 Broadway in downtown Manhattan, one of the world's most valuable office building properties. A voluntary petition in reorganization was filed in April, 1941, and it was only after six long years that a plan of reorganization was finally consummated. The details of the proceeding are so fully described in the discussion of the several applications that no useful purpose would be served...

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