MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 68 Civ. 5200.

300 F.Supp. 185 (1969)

MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST CO. et al., Plaintiffs, Providence & Worcester Railroad Co., Intervening Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants, Penn Central Co., Intervening Defendant.

United States District Court S. D. New York.

April 28, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold I. Meyerson (Hale, Grant, Meyerson, O'Brien & McCormick, New York City), for Providence and Worcester Railroad Co.

Richard W. McLaren and William D. Ruckelshaus, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert M. Morgenthau and Jon O. Newman, U. S. Attys., Paul A. Sweeney and John H. D. Wigger, Washington, D. C., for the United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Leonard S. Goodman, Fritz R. Kahn and Jerome E. Sharfman, Washington, D. C., for the Interstate Commerce Commission.

Ulrich Schweitzer, and Debevoise, Plimpton, Lyons & Gates (Francis T. P. Plimpton, Roswell B. Perkins, Robert L. King, Harvey J. Goldschmid, and William G. Bardell, New York City), for Penn Central Co.

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


FRIENDLY, Circuit Judge:

These consolidated actions raise a host of difficult and important questions concerning the Fourth Supplemental Report of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the Penn Central merger case, 334 I.C.C. 25 (1968). This report, like its two predecessors, deals with the inclusion of the New Haven (NH). We deal in this opinion only with a small and discrete segment relating to intervening plaintiff Providence & Worcester R. R. Co. (P &...

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