LEVIN v. MISSISSIPPI RIVER CORPORATION

No. 67 Civil 5095.

377 F.Supp. 926 (1974)

Betty LEVIN et al., Plaintiffs, v. MISSISSIPPI RIVER CORPORATION et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, S. D. New York.

June 26, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orans, Elsen & Polstein, New York City, for plaintiff Betty Levin; Sheldon H. Elsen, John Lowenthal, New York City, of counsel.

Pomerantz Levy Haudek & Block, New York City, for plaintiff Robert LeVasseur; Abraham L. Pomerantz, William E. Haudek; New York City, of counsel.

Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for plaintiff Alleghany Corp.; John E. Tobin, M. Lauck Walton, Glenn S. Koppel, New York City, of counsel.

Dewey, Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, New York City, for defendant Mississippi River Corp.; Everett I. Willis, Robert S. Wolf, Gerald E. Ross, New York City, of counsel.

Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for defendants Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., Robert H. Craft, T. C. Davis and Thomas F. Milbank; David W. Peck, Michael M. Maney, Carroll E. Neesemann, Marcia B. Paul, New York City, of counsel.

Greenbaum Wolf & Ernst, New York City, for objectors Edward Garfield and Barbara M. Garfield; Edward Garfield, New York City, of counsel.

Michael Paul Cohen, Chicago, Ill., William Heimowitz, New York City, for objectors Jacob R. Cohen and June Cohen.

John Charles Viani, Point Pleasant, N. J., Winchester F. Ingersoll, Jr., Cambridge, Mass., William R. Wesson, Mantoloking, N. J., objectors pro se.


OPINION

EDWARD WEINFELD, District Judge.

This is the final stage in the settlement of these consolidated class actions; hopefully, the closing chapter in the controversy and litigations in which the Class A and Class B shareholders of the Missouri Pacific Railroad Company ("MoPac") have been embroiled for almost two decades. Familiarity is assumed with this court's opinion approving the terms of the settlement,1 as well as with...

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