IN RE BOSTON AND MAINE CORP.

Nos. 79-1230, 79-1231, and 79-1234 to 79-1236.

634 F.2d 1359 (1980)

In re BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, Debtor, Appeal of CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO RAILWAY COMPANY et al., In re BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, Debtor, Appeal of MAINE CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY et al., In re BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, Debtor, Appeal of PENN CENTRAL CORPORATION, In re BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, Debtor, Appeal of CANADIAN PACIFIC, In re BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, Debtor, Appeal of EASTERN ASSOCIATED COAL CORPORATION.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided October 6, 1980.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John T. Collins, Boston, Mass., with whom Sherburne, Powers & Needham, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Company, Baltimore and Ohio Railway Company and Western Maryland Railway, appellants.

Paul B. Galvani, Boston, Mass., with whom Reed Witherby and Ropes & Gray, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Maine Central Railroad Company and Portland Terminal Company, appellants.

George W. McLaughlin, Boston, Mass., for Canadian Pacific, appellant.

Philip Burling, Boston, Mass., with whom Peter A. Fine and Foley, Hoag & Eliot, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Eastern Associated Coal Corporation, appellant.

Robert M. Gargill, Boston, Mass., with whom Zdislaw W. Wieckowski, Choate, Hall & Stewart, and Charles W. Mulcahy, Boston, Mass., were on brief, for Trustees of the Boston and Maine Corporation, Debtor, appellees.

Joseph H. B. Edward, Boston, Mass., with whom Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass., was on brief, for First National Bank of Boston and Malcolm W. Hall, Successor Trustees, under First Mortgage Indenture Dated December 1, 1919 of Boston and Maine Corporation, appellees.

Before KUNZIG, Judge, U.S. Court of Claims, BOWNES, Circuit Judge, DOOLING, Senior District Judge.


DOOLING, District Judge.

The present appeals1 in this railroad reorganization case challenge the district court's order, 468 F.Supp. 996 (D.Mass.1979), determining the priorities of the creditors and stockholders in the reorganization of the Boston and Maine Corporation. Railroads which, as required by the Interstate Commerce Act and the cases decided under it, have interlined freight cars with the...

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