CONNECTICUT RY. & LIGHTING CO. v. NEW YORK, N. H. & H. R. CO.

No. 274, Docket 21992.

190 F.2d 305 (1951)

CONNECTICUT RY. & LIGHTING CO. v. NEW YORK, N. H. & H. R. CO.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided June 15, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Beekman & Bogue, New York City (Edward K. Hanlon and Louis S. Weeks, Jr., New York City, of counsel), for appellant.

Joseph B. Ely, Boston, Mass. (Richard Ely, Boston, Mass., and J. H. Gardner, Jr., New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellee.

Scribner & Miller, New York City, and Hale & Dorr, Boston, Mass. (Joseph N. Welch, Louis G. Bernstein and Frank R. Bruce, all of New York City, David Burstein, Boston, Mass., and Edward H. Miller, New York City, of counsel), for Group of Individual Bondholders for The Boston Terminal Company in support of the order on appeal.

Before SWAN, AUGUSTUS N. HAND and CLARK, Circuit Judges.


SWAN, Circuit Judge.

The New Haven's plan of reorganization made provision for the issuance of common stock to holders of unsecured claims against the debtor; and the consummation order and final decree, dated September 11, 1947, reserved jurisdiction over such claims, the amount of which had not then been fixed. By the present proceeding the New Haven invoked such reserved jurisdiction with respect to claims held by Boston Terminal Company interests. Reorganization...

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