IN RE FLORIDA EAST COAST RY. CO.

No. 4827.

103 F.Supp. 825 (1952)

In re FLORIDA EAST COAST RY. CO.

United States District Court S. D. Florida, Jacksonville Division.

March 11, 1952.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Sunderland & Kiendl and Edgar G. Crossmen, of New York City, and Stockton, Ulmer & Murchison, of Jacksonville, Fla., for first and refunding mortgage bondholders' committee.

Jackson, Nash, Brophy, Barringer & Brooks and Paul B. Barringer, Jr., of New York City, and Osborne, Copp & Markham and H. P. Osborne, of Jacksonville, Fla., for first mortgage trustees.

Appleton, Rice & Perrin, Clifton S. Thomson, Robert M. McCulloch and G. R. Gerhard, of New York City, and Bedell & Bedell, of Jacksonville, Fla., for first and refunding mortgage trustees.

Giles J. Patterson, of Jacksonville, Fla., and John R. Turney and Robert N. Lowry, of Washington, D. C., for St. Joe Paper Co.

Henry P. Adair and Clarence G. Ashby, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Donald Russell, of Spartanburg, S. C., for testamentary trustees of the Alfred I. duPont estate.

Oliver & Donnally and Willard P. Scott, of New York City, and J. Turner Butler, of Jacksonville, Fla., for S. A. Lynch and associated interests.

Miller Walton, of Miami, Fla. (Walton, Hubbard, Schroeder, Lantaff & Atkins, of Miami, Fla., of counsel), for W. G. Welbon and others.

Macfarlane, Ferguson, Allison & Kelly and George W. Ericksen, of Tampa, Fla., for F. K. Conn and others.

Clarence M. Mulholland, Toledo, Ohio, and Edward J. Hickey, Jr., of Washington, D. C., and Edwin C. Coffee, of Jacksonville, Fla., for Railway Labor Executives' Ass'n.

Smathers, Thompson, Maxwell & Dyer, of Miami, Fla., for W. R. Huggins and others.

Alexander & Green, Edward W. Bourne, Andrew Oliver, William A. Boylan, of New York City, Charles Cook Howell and Richard B. Gwathmey, of Wilmington, N. C., and Howell & Howell, of Jacksonville, Fla., for Atlantic Coast Line R. Co.

Henry L. Walker, Charles Clark and Sidney S. Alderman, of Washington D. C., and Cyril C. Copp, of Jacksonville, Fla., for Southern Railway System and affiliated lines.

Harold J. Gallagher and Walter H. Brown, Jr., of New York City, James B. McDonough, Jr., of Norfolk, Va., and Guy W. Botts, of Jacksonville, Fla., for Seaboard Air Line R. Co.

Jerome C. Hofmayer, of Miami, Fla., for Greater Miami Traffic Ass'n and Miami Chamber of Commerce.

Lewis W. Petteway and D. Fred McMullen, of Tallahassee, Fla., for Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission.

John B. L'Engle, of Jacksonville, Fla., for debtor.

Russell L. Frink, of Jacksonville, Fla., for debtor's trustees.


STRUM, Circuit Judge.1

Florida East Coast Railway Company operated under an equity receivership in this Court from August 31, 1931, until January 25, 1941, when a reorganization proceeding was instituted under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 205, as amended.

Four plans of reorganization have been proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The first and third...

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