IN RE MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY

No. 6935.

129 F.Supp. 392 (1955)

In the Matter of MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, Debtor.

United States District Court E. D. Missouri, E. D.

February 25, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell L. Dearmont and Thomas T. Railey, St. Louis, Mo., for Guy A. Thompson, Trustee, Missouri Pac. R. Co. and all other debtor companies.

Burton K. Wheeler and Edward K. Wheeler, Washington, D. C., and Oliver & Oliver, Cape Girardeau, Mo. (Wheeler & Wheeler, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Missouri Pac. R. Co., debtor.

John L. J. Hart, John Fleming Kelly, and Jay W. Tracey, Jr., Denver, Colo. (Holland & Hart, Denver, Colo., of counsel), for Alleghany Corp.

Percival E. Jackson, New York City (Theodore N. Tarlau and Joseph J. Bryer, New York City, of counsel), for Group of Holders of First and Refunding Mortgage Bonds of Missouri Pac. R. Co.

DeLancey C. Smith, San Francisco, Cal., Henry I. Stimson, New York City (Tralles, Hoffmeister & Gilpin, St. Louis, Mo., and Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson, New York City, of counsel), for Protective Committee of 5¼% Secured Serial Gold Bonds of Missouri Pac. R. Co. and certain stockholders of N. O. T. & M. R. Co.

Harry Kirshbaum, New York City, for Missouri Pac. Convertible Bondholders Group.

Robert E. Smith, New York City, for Protective Committee for Holders of Preferred Stock of Missouri Pac. R. Co.

Abraham K. Weber, New York City, for Carl Rosenberger et al., holders of International-Great Northern R. R. Adjustment Mortgage Bonds.

Charles W. McConaughy, New York City, and Jacob Chasnoff, St. Louis, Mo. (Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, New York City, and Lowenhaupt, Mattingly, Chasnoff & Stolar, St. Louis, Mo., of counsel), for Group of Institutional Investors Holding First and Refunding Mortgage 5% Bonds of Missouri Pac. R. Co.

W. Hugh Peal and Allan Kuller, New York City, Chadbourne, Parke, Whiteside, Wolff & Brophy, New York City, for Manufacturers Trust Co., Trustee, Missouri Pac. R. R. First and Refunding Mortgage.

James I. Wyer, New York City, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, for Bankers Trust Co., Trustee, Missouri Pac. 5½% Convertible Bonds.

Emmet McCaffery, New York City, Dorr & Hand, New York City, for Chemical Corn Exchange Bank, Trustee under Indenture Securing Missouri Pac. 5¼% Secured Serial Bonds.

Hugh L. M. Cole, New York City, Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley, New York City, and Wm. G. Pettus, Jr., St. Louis, Mo., Shepley, Kroeger, Fisse & Shepley, St. Louis, Mo., for City Bank Farmers Trust Co., Trustee under International-Great Northern First Mortgage.

Moses & Singer, New York City (Felix Fishman and Lyonel E. Zunz, New York City, of counsel), for Oscar Gruss & Son, as Holders of International-Great Northern R. R. Adjustment Mortgage Bonds.

Edward F. Colladay, Colladay & Colladay, Washington, D. C., and Everett Paul Griffin, St. Louis, Mo., for Protective Committee of First Mortgage Bonds of International-Great Northern R. Co.

William H. Biggs, St. Louis, Mo., for Missouri Pac. 5¼% Secured Serial Gold Bonds Committee.

Frederick M. Myers, Jr., and L. George Reder, Pittsfield, Mass., on behalf of Independent Directors, Missouri Pac. R. Co.

S. Mayner Wallace, St. Louis, Mo., Leonard D. Adkins, New York City, for Savings Banks Trust Co., Holder of N. O. T. & M. First Mortgage Bonds.

Wm. C. Connett IV, St. Louis, Mo., Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts, St. Louis, Mo., for St. Louis Union Trust Co., Trustee, and Roland C. Behrens et al., as a Bondholders Protective Committee for Little Rock & Hot Springs Western Bonds.

Smith, Harris & Hanke, St. Louis, Mo., and Milton Paulson, New York City (Samuel M. Koenigsberg, Newark, N. J., of counsel), for Estate of Adelaide Loria, Deceased, Owner of $5,000 principal amount of Missouri Pac. R. R. General Mortgage Bonds.

James J. Lewis, Alfred B. Teton, Grant G. Guthrie, Chicago, Ill. (Froelich, Grossman, Teton & Tabin, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for Protective Committee for Holders of Common Stock of Missouri Pac. R. R. Co.

Jones, Hocker, Gladney & Grand and George S. Roudebush, St. Louis, Mo. (Hopkins, Sutter, Halls, Owen & Mulroy, and Harry B. Sutter, C. Ives Waldo, Jr. and James J. McClure, Jr., Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for Avery Brundage et al., Stockholders of N. O. T. & M. R. Co.

Walter H. Brown, Jr., New York City (Willkie, Owen, Farr, Gallagher & Walton, New York City, of counsel), for New York Trust Co.


MOORE, Chief Judge.

These are proceedings under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 205, for the reorganization of the three principal debtors, Missouri Pacific Railroad Company, New Orleans, Texas & Mexico Railway Company, and the International-Great Northern Railroad Company, and their subsidiary debtors. The matter before the Court is a plan of reorganization for the aforesaid companies, which plan, herein called the 1954 Plan, is the fourth...

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