UNITED STATES v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN & HARTFORD R. CO.

Nos. 109, Docket 25793, 25879.

276 F.2d 525 (1959)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY, Tri-Continental Financial Corporation, A. C. Allyn and Company, Incorporated, American Transportation Enterprises, Inc., Equitable Securities Corporation, Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades & Co., The Robinson-Humphrey Company, Inc., and John W. Clarke & Co., Defendants-Appellees. Helene GLENMORE et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John I. AHERN et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit.

Application for Hearing Denied March 23, 1960.

Decided November 2, 1959.

Rehearing Denied December 2, 1959.

On January 29, 1960.

January 29, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Cochran Doub, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Morton Hollander, Peter H. Schiff, Attys., Department of Justice, Washington, D. C. (S. Hazard Gillespie, Jr., U. S. Atty. New York City, Peter H. Schiff, Robert W. Ginnane, and Harvard R. Osmond, Washington, D. C., on the brief), for plaintiff-appellant in Docket 25793.

Mathias F. Correa, New York City (James A. Fowler, Jr., J. Bernard Quigley, H. Richard Schumacher and Cahill, Gordon, Reindel & Ohl, New York City on the brief), for defendants-appellees Tri-Continental Financial Corporation et al in Docket 25793, and for defendant-appellee Tri-Continental Financial Corporation in Docket 25879.

Julius Levy, New York City (Irving Bizar and Pomerantz Levy & Haudek, New York City, on the brief), for plaintiffs-stockholders in Glenmore et al. v. Ahern et al., as amicus curiae in Docket 25793 and for plaintiffs-appellants in Docket 25879.

William T. Griffin, New York City, submitted a brief for defendant-appellee, New York, New Haven & Hartford R. Co.

Before LUMBARD, WATERMAN and FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.


Application for Hearing In Banc Denied March 23, 1960.

On Suggestion of Lack of Appellate Jurisdiction, January 29, 1960.

Opinion of November 2, 1959, on the merits in Docket 25793.

FRIENDLY, Circuit Judges.

The question here is whether a railroad subject to § 20a of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C.A. § 20a, can lawfully provide by agreement for significant changes in the rights and privileges of holders of 27% of its preferred...

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