GENERAL MOTORS CORP. v. BLANCHETTE

No. 77-38.

470 F.Supp. 866 (1979)

GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. Robert W. BLANCHETTE, Richard C. Bond, John H. McArthur, Trustees of Penn Central Transportation Company, and Consolidated Rail Corporation, Defendants.

Special Court, Regional Rail Reorganization Act.

May 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gilbert W. Oswald, Bernard J. Smolens, Michael J. Mangan and Charles B. Blakinger, Philadelphia, Pa. (Schnader, Harrison, Segal & Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Paul R. Duke, Washington, D. C., Carl Helmetag, Jr., and Robert Szwajkos, Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant Trustees of Penn Central Transportation Co. and for Penn Central Corporation.

John G. Harkins, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. (Laurence Z. Shiekman, Charles J. Bloom and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for defendant Consolidated Rail Corporation.


THOMSEN, Judge.

In this action General Motors Corporation (GM) seeks reimbursement from the Penn Central (PC) Trustees or Conrail of so much of the costs of constructing or improving tracks from a PC line into two GM plants in Detroit (pursuant to agreements with the Trustees approved by the PC reorganization court) as had been paid by GM originally and had not been repaid to GM by the Trustees before April 1, 1976.

The Trustees filed an answer, contending...

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