IN RE PENN CENT. SECURITIES LITIGATION

No. 76-2139.

560 F.2d 1138 (1977)

In re PENN CENTRAL SECURITIES LITIGATION. Appeal of SHEARSON HAYDEN STONE INC., Bache & Co., Inc., Drexel Burnham & Co., Inc., Loeb, Roades & Co., Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Inc., Wheat, First Securities Inc., Dean Witter & Co., Inc., E. F. Hutton & Co., Inc., Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., Reynolds Securities Inc., L. F. Rothschild & Co., and Thompson & McKinnon, Auchicloss Kohlmeyer Inc.

United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.

Decided August 5, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Berger, Sherrie R. Savett, Jay Robert Stiefel, Philadelphia, Pa., David Berger, P. A., of counsel, for plaintiffs-appellees, Class of Shareholders of Penn Central Co.

White, McElroy, White, Sides & Rector, B. Thomas McElroy, Peveril O. Settle, III, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellees, appellees, Class of Shareholders of Great Southwest Corp.

Philip M. Hammett, James D. Crawford, Sterling H. Schoen, Jr., Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., for appellants.

Before VAN DUSEN, GIBBONS and GARTH, Circuit Judges.


OPINION OF THE COURT

GIBBONS, Circuit Judge.

I

This is an appeal by Shearson Hayden Stone, Inc., Bache & Co., Inc., Drexel Burnham & Co., Inc., Loeb, Roades & Co., Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis Inc., Wheat, First Securities Inc., Dean Witter & Co., Inc., E. F. Hutton & Co., Inc., Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill, Noyes Incorporated, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., Reynolds Securities Inc., L. F. Rothschild...

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