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IN RE INLAND GAS CORPORATION

Nos. 13911, 13955.

275 F.2d 509 (1960)

In the Matters of INLAND GAS CORPORATION, Kentucky Fuel Gas Corporation, American Fuel & Power Company, Debtors.

United States Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit.

January 27, 1960.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Murray Seasongood and Robert P. Goldman, Cincinnati, Ohio, George Zolotar, New York City, Leo T. Wolford, Louisville, Ky., Charles Landrum, Jr., Lexington, Ky., for appellants Kern and others.

Thomas G. Meeker, Arthur Blasberg, Jr., David Ferber, Richard B. Pearl, Washington, D. C., Charles J. Odenweller, Jr., Cleveland, Ohio, for Securities and Exchange Commission.

Selden S. McNeer, Robert K. Emerson, Campbell, McNeer, Woods & Bafley, Huntington, W. Va., for Ben Williamson, Jr., trustee.

Edward S. Pinney, John F. Hunt, Jr., David Melamed, Cravath, Swaine & Moore, New York City, for Columbia Gas System, Inc.

Robert S. Spilman, Jr., Charleston, W. Va., for Allen Committee.

George W. Jaques of Milbank, Tweed, Hope & Hadley, New York City, for Vanston Committee.

Walter H. Brown, Jr., Kenneth J. Bialkin, New York City, and John L. Smith, Catlettsburg, Ky., for Committee for Holders of Kentucky Fuel Gas Corp. 6½ Debentures.

Before MARTIN, MILLER and CECIL, Circuit Judges.

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

We would need go to fiction rather than to the case books to find an appropriate parallel to this prolonged litigation. See Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, reported in "Bleak House" by Charles Dickens. The controversy presented by the present appeals evolves from an equity receivership instituted in late 1930, followed by proceedings under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act and finally by corporate reorganization proceedings under Chapter X of the Bankruptcy...

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