EASTERN AIR LINES, INC. v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD

Nos. 341, 342, 344, Docket 25422, 25434, 25532.

271 F.2d 752 (1959)

EASTERN AIR LINES, INC., Capitol Airways, Inc., City of Nashville and the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, Petitioners, v. CIVIL AERONAUTICS BOARD, Respondent, Delta Air Lines, Inc., Northwest Airlines, Inc., Capital Airlines, Inc., et al., Intervenors.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Decided October 7, 1959.

Rehearing Denied December 15, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold L. Russell, Atlanta, Ga. (Gambrell, Harlan, Russell, Moye & Richardson, E. Smythe Gambrell, James H. Bratton, Jr., and Allison Wade, Atlanta, Ga., of counsel), for Eastern Air Lines, Inc.

R. S. Maurer and James W. Callison, Atlanta, Ga. (Frank F. Rox, Atlanta, Ga., of counsel), for Delta Air Lines, Inc.

C. Frank Reavis, New York City (Hodges, Reavis, McGrath & Downey, Robert Thrun, Frederick R. Adler, Richard B. Smith, New York City; Leasure & Pendleton, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Northwest Airlines, Inc.

Robert B. Hankins, Macon M. Arthur, Washington, D. C. (Adair, Ulmer, Murchison, Kent & Ashby, Jacksonville, Fla., Charles H. Murchison, Jacksonville, Fla., James H. Bastian, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for Capital Airlines, Inc.

Coates Lear, Lloyd Fletcher, Washington, D. C., for Capitol Airways, Inc.

D. L. Lansden, Lawrence Dortch, Nashville, Tenn., Robert Redding, Silver Spring, Md. (Howard F. Cerny, New York City, Waller, Davis & Lansden, Nashville, Tenn., of counsel), for City of Nashville and Nashville Chamber of Commerce.

Edmund A. Stephan, Robert L. Stern, Floyd M. Rett, Chicago, Ill. (Mayer, Friedlich, Spiess, Tierney, Brown & Platt, Chicago, Ill., of counsel), for United Air Lines, Inc.

Victor R. Hansen, Asst. Atty. Gen., Richard A. Solomon, Atty., Dept. of Justice, Franklin M. Stone, Gen. Counsel, CAB, John H. Wanner, Assoc. Gen. Counsel; O. D. Ozment, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Morris Chertkov, Monte Lazarus, Ulrich V. Hoffmann, Attys., CAB, Washington, D. C., for Civil Aeronautics Board.

Paul L. Adams, Atty. Gen., of the State of Michigan, Robert G. Howlett, Spec. Asst. Atty. Gen., Grand Rapids, Mich., for Michigan Department of Aeronautics.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, LUMBARD and WATERMAN, Circuit Judges.


WATERMAN, Circuit Judge.

Presented here for our decision are three separate petitions for review of orders of the Civil Aeronautics Board1 arising out of the "Great Lakes-South-east Service Case."2 These orders marked the culmination of an extensive hearing3 on new route applications for service between points in a specified geographic area of the Middle West on the one hand and...

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