SEATRAIN LINES, Inc.
v.
PENNSYLVANIA R. CO. et al.
United States District Court, D. New Jersey.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
October 23, 1952.
As Amended November 21, 1952.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Jamieson & Walsh, Crawford Jamieson, Trenton, for plaintiff, Carl E. Newton, Theodore S. Hope, Edward L. Meyer, New York City, of counsel.
Sackett M. Dickinson, John W. Griggs, Trenton, N. J., for Pennsylvania R. Co., George L. Haskins, Joseph F. Eshelman, Philadelphia, Pa., Covington & Burling, Hugh B. Cox, Washington, D. C., of counsel.
John W. Griggs, Trenton, N. J., for Presidents' Traffic Conference-Eastern Railroads, Traffic Executive Ass'n-Eastern Railroads, General Freight Traffic Committee-Eastern Railroads, Freight Traffic Committee-New England Territory Railroads, Freight Traffic Committee-Trunk Line Territory Railroads and Freight Traffic Committee-Central Territory Railroads, Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean Samuel E. Gates, Robert B. Von Mehren, New York City, of counsel.
Pitney, Hardin & Ward, Waldron M. Ward and Robert P. Hazlehurst, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co., Shea, Greenman, Gardner & McConnaughey, Francis M. Shea, Washington, D. C., Charles Cook Howell, Wilmington, N. C., of counsel.
Carey, Schenk & Jardine, Newark, N. J., Robert Carey, Jersey City, N. J., Thomas V. Jardine, Newark, N. J., for Louisville & N. R. Co., H. T. Lively, Louisville, Ky., of counsel.
Pitney, Hardin & Ward, Waldron M. Ward and Robert P. Hazlehurst, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Southern Ry. Co., Shea, Greenman, Gardner & McConnaughey, Francis M. Shea, Sidney S. Alderman, Herny L. Walker, Washington, D. C., of counsel.
Markley & Broadhurst, James J. Langan, Jersey City, N. J., for Baltimore & O. R. Co., L. James Huegel, Baltimore, Md., Covington & Burling, Hugh B. Cox, Washington D. C., of counsel.
Minard, Cooper, Gaffey & Webb, Duane E. Minard, Newark N. J., for Erie R. Co.
Pitney, Hardin & Ward, Waldron M. Ward and Robert P. Hazlehurst, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Association of American Railroads, J. Carter Fort and Thomas L. Preston, Washington, D. C., of counsel.
Pitney, Hardin & Ward, Waldron M. Ward and Robert P. Hazlehurst, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Seaboard Air Line R. Co., James B. McDonough, Jr., Charles T. Abeles, Norfolk, Va., Harold J. Gallagher, New York City, W. R. C. Cocke, Norfolk, Va., of counsel.
O'Mara, Schumann, Davis & Lynch, Joseph A. Davis, Jersey City, N. J., for New York Cent. R. Co., Dorr, Hand & Dawson, George W. Whittaker, New York City, of counsel.
United States District Court, D. New Jersey.
FORMAN, Chief Judge.
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So much of the amended complaint filed by the plaintiff, Seatrain Lines, Inc. (hereinafter called Seatrain), as is essential to the present considerations, charges as follows:
In 1929 Overseas Railways, Inc. began to carry goods between the ports of New York and New Orleans, via Havana, Cuba. On December 31, 1931 Seatrain acquired its net assets and it was merged and consolidated with Seatrain on October 14...
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