ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 66 Civ. 2860, 2903, 2914, 3413, 67 Civ. 2451.

279 F.Supp. 316 (1967)

ERIE-LACKAWANNA RAILROAD COMPANY, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants. The Delaware and Hudson Railroad Corporation, Chicago & Eastern Illinois Railroad Company, Milton J. Shapp, City of Scranton, Borough of Freedom, and Boston and Maine R. R. Co., Intervening Plaintiffs, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, New York Central Railroad Company, and Richard Joyce Smith and William J. Kirk, as Trustees for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Debtor, Intervening Defendants. The BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY, the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, and Norfolk and Western Railway Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. The CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY and Reading Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Western Maryland Railway Company, Intervening Plaintiff. OSCAR GRUSS & SON, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants. The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company First Mortgage 4% Bondholders Committee, Intervening Plaintiff, The New York Central Railroad Company, the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, and Richard Joyce Smith and William J. Kirk, as Trustees for the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company, Debtor, Intervening Defendants. The DELAWARE AND HUDSON RAILROAD CORPORATION, and Norfolk and Western Railway Company, Plaintiffs, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant. Boston and Maine Corporation, John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, the Prudential Insurance Company of America, Aid Association for Lutherans, and Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society, Intervening Plaintiffs, Interstate Commerce Commission, Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Company, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

October 19, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cravath, Swaine & Moore, by Thomas D. Barr, Harry H. Voigt, Eldon Olson, John M. Linsenmeyer, and Alexander & Green, New York City, for Erie-Lackawanna R.R.

Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie, Alexander & Mitchell, by Harry G. Silleck, Jr., New York City, for Delaware & H. R.R.

Sidley & Austin, by Howard J. Trienens and George Saunders, Jr., Chicago, Ill., Kelley, Drye, Newhall, Maginnes & Warren, by Frank H. Heiss, New York City, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, and Wheeler & Wheeler, Washington, D. C., for Norfolk & W. Ry., Baltimore & O. R.R., Chesapeake & O. Ry. and Western Maryland Ry.

Macklin, Hanan & McKernan, by Timothy A. Hanan, New York City, and William P. Quinn, Philadelphia, Pa., for Reading Co.

Hogan & Hartson, by Edward A. McDermott and James A. Belson, Washington, D. C., and Richard C. Casey, New York City, for Boston & M. R. R.

Windsor F. Cousins, Philadelphia, Pa., and Conboy, Hewitt, O'Brien & Boardman, by Edward F. Butler, Hobart L. Brinsmade and David J. Mountan, Jr., New York City, for Pennsylvania R.R.

Gerald E. Dwyer, James B. Gray and Jerome H. Shapiro, New York City, for New York Cent. R.R.

Sullivan & Worcester, by Joseph Auerbach, Boston, Mass., and James Wm. Moore, New Haven, Conn. and Robert M. Peet, New York City, for Richard Joyce Smith and William J. Kirk.

William G. Mahoney, Washington, D. C., and Reilly, Curry & Gibbons, by Paul G. Reilly, Jr., New York City, for Railway Labor Executives Ass'n.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, by Malcom Fooshee and Granville Whittlesey, Jr., New York City, for John Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co., Prudential Ins. Co. of America, Aid Ass'n for Lutherans, and Woodmen of the World Life Ins. Soc.

Myron S. Isaacs, New York City, for Oscar Gruss & Son.

Migdal, Low, Tenney & Glass, by Lester G. Migdal and Lawrence W. Pollack, New York City, for New Haven First Mortgage Bondholders Committee.

Robert W. Ginnane, Leonard S. Goodman, Betty Jo Christian and Fritz R. Kahn, and Jerome Nelson, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Howard E. Shapiro, Washington, D. C., Joel A. Forkosch and Michael D. Hess, New York City, and William R. Weissman, Washington, D. C., for United States.

Arthur A. Arsham, New York City, and Gordon P. MacDougall, Washington, D. C., for City of Scranton and Milton J. Shapp.

Walter J. Myskowski, Washington, D. C., for State of New York.

Robert M. Schacht, Providence, R. I., for State of Rhode Island.

Leon S. Wolk, Fort Lee, N. J., for State of New Jersey.

Samuel Kanell, Hartford, Conn., for State of Connecticut.

Edward W. Hanley, III, Boston, Mass., for Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

John R. Thompson, New York City, for City of New York.

Alan J. Littau, New York City, for Port of New York Authority.

Robert M. Morgenthau, U. S. Atty., for Southern Dist. of New York, Brian J. Gallagher, Asst. U. S. Atty., for the United States and the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Shea & Gardner, Washington, D. C., for trustees of property of Central Railroad of New Jersey, debtor, William H. Dempsey, Jr., Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Richard J. Lally, Richard B. Wachenfeld, Newark, N. J., for Central Railroad of New Jersey.

Before FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge, and WEINFELD and LEVET, District Judges.


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

We have before us, on final hearing, actions to enjoin the enforcement of orders of the Interstate Commerce Commission in F.D. 21989 and 21990, see 327 I.C.C. 475, 328 I.C.C. 304, and 330 I.C.C. 328, authorizing the merger of Pennsylvania Railroad Company (PRR) and New York Central Railroad Company (NYC) into a single company (Penn-Central), and in F.D. 21510, see 330 I.C.C. 780 and 331 I.C.C. 22, directing the Norfolk & Western Railway...

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