N. Y., N. H. & H. R. CO., BONDHOLDERS' COMMITTEE v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 68 Civ. 296, 306, 308, 344, 345.

289 F.Supp. 418 (1968)

The NEW YORK, NEW HAVEN AND HARTFORD RAILROAD COMPANY, FIRST MORTGAGE 4% BONDHOLDERS' COMMITTEE, the Chase Manhattan Bank, N. A., as Trustee Under the General Income Mortgage of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company, as Trustee of the First and Refunding Mortgage of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, United States Trust Company of New York, as Trustee Under the Harlem River Division Indenture of First Mortgage made by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, and Oscar Gruss & Son, Plaintiffs, Erie Lackawanna Railroad Company, Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Company, Richard Joyce Smith and William J. Kirk, Trustees of the Property of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company, Debtor, State of New York, State of Connecticut, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and State of Rhode Island, Intervening Defendants.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

July 10, 1968.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Migdal, Low, Tenney & Glass, by Lester C. Migdal and Lawrence W. Pollack, New York City, for Bondholders' Committee.

Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, by Wilkie Bushby and Joseph Schreiber, New York City, for Chase Manhattan Bank.

Simpson, Thacher, & Bartlett, by Albert X. Bader, Jr., Horace J. McAfee, and John J. McGraw, New York City, for Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.

Carter, Ledyard & Milburn, by Walter A. Kernan and Richard McLaren, New York City, for United States Trust Co. of New York.

Myron S. Isaacs, New York City, and Homer Kripke, Jersey City, N. J., for Oscar Gruss & Son.

Alexander & Green, by J. Kenneth Campbell, New York City, for Erie-Lackawanna Railroad Co.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel and Leonard S. Goodman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates, by Roswell B. Perkins, Francis T. Plimpton, Robert L. King, Harvey J. Goldschmid, William G. Bardel; and Gerald E. Dwyer, Ulrich Schweitzer, New York City, and Windsor F. Cousins, Philadelphia Pa., for Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co.

Sullivan & Worcester, by Joseph Auerbach, and Morris Raker; Boston, Mass., and Robert M. Peet, New York City, James W. Moore, and Robert W. Blanchette, New Haven, Conn., for Richard Joyce Smith and William J. Kirk, Trustees of New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., and Walter J. Myskowski, Washington, D. C., for the State of New York.

Robert K. Killian, Atty. Gen., and Samuel Kanell, Hartford, Conn., for the State of Connecticut.

Elliot L. Richardson, Atty. Gen., and Christopher Armstrong, South Byfield, Mass., for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Herbert F. De Simone, Atty. Gen., and Robert M. Schacht, Providence, R. I., for the State of Rhode Island.

Armistead B. Rood, Providence, R. I., for Boston & Providence RR Stockholders Development Group.

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


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

For the fourth time this Court has before it an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Penn-Central merger—this one relating to the terms for the inclusion of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (NH).1 The principal decision under review is a Second Supplemental Report on Further Hearing, hereafter "the Report," 331 I.C.C. 643 (1967);2 there is also...

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