AMERICAN B. SHOE & FOUNDRY CO. v. INTERBOROUGH R. T. CO.


51 F.Supp. 105 (1942)

AMERICAN BRAKE SHOE & FOUNDRY CO. v. INTERBOROUGH RAPID TRANSIT CO. (two cases). CENTRAL HANOVER BANK & TRUST CO. v. MANHATTAN RY. CO. et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

June 18, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, of New York City (Hamilton C. Rickaby, of New York City, of counsel), for petitioner.

William C. Chanler, Corp. Counsel, of New York City (Leo Brown, of New York City, of counsel), for City of New York.

Chester W. Cuthell, of New York City (Robert W. Maloney, Jr., of New York City, of counsel), for Transit Commission.

Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner & Reed, of New York City (Edwin S. S. Sunderland and Chester F. Leonard, both of New York City, of counsel), for J. P. Morgan and others.

Shearman & Sterling, of New York City (Guy Cary and Clifford M. Bowden, both of New York City, of counsel), for J. Herbert Case and others.

Wright, Gordon, Zachry, Parlin & Cahill, of New York City (Boykin C. Wright, Clifton Murphy, and Daniel James, all of New York City, of counsel), for Van S. Merle-Smith and others.


HULBERT, District Judge.

Ten years ago the American Brake Shoe and Foundry Company filed a creditors bill in equity in this court against the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, for which receivers were appointed, and from time to time the court granted leave to other interested parties to intervene, including the Manhattan Elevated Railway Company and representatives of its Mortgage Bonds and Guaranteed Stockholders, and an independent receiver was likewise appointed...

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