IN RE PITTSBURGH RYS. CO.

No. 20225.

60 F.Supp. 600 (1945)

In re PITTSBURGH RYS. CO.

District Court, W. D. Pennsylvania.

April 30, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anne X. Alpern, City Sol., and Leon Wald, Asst. City Sol., both of Pittsburgh, Pa., for petitioner, City of Pittsburgh.

John J. O'Connell, Co. Sol., and Frank Butler, Asst. Co. Sol., both of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Allegheny County.

Marland Gale and Samuel M. Koenigsberg, both of New York City, for Securities and Exchange Commission.

Charles B. Prichard, of Pittsburgh, Pa., and Maurice J. Dix, of New York City, for Jules Guggenheim and other public security holders.

J. E. Madva and Roy G. Bostwick, both of Pittsburgh, Pa., for certain creditors.

Moorhead & Knox and Wm. S. Moorhead, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Monongahela St. Rys. Co. and Pittsburgh & Birmingham Traction Co., guaranteed underliers.

Richard W. Ahlers, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Suburban Rapid Transit St. Ry. Co., guaranteed underlier.

Emanuel Amdur, Lewis M. Alpern, and A. E. Kountz, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Tort Creditors Committee.

C. Elmer Bown, Thomas J. Munsch, and Philip A. Fleger, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Philadelphia Co.

Blaxter, O'Neill & Houston, J. Henry O'Niell, and J. Garfield Houston, all of Pittsburgh, Pa., for trustees of Pittsburgh Rys. Co., debtor.

H. F. Stambaugh, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for Committee for Bondholders of Southern Traction Co.

Watson B. Adair, of Pittsburgh, Pa., special master.


McVICAR, District Judge.

In the matter of the reorganization of the Pittsburgh Railways Company, debtor, the City of Pittsburgh filed a petition October 23, 1942, acting in the public interest and as a large creditor. The general purpose of the petition was to facilitate reorganization. The prayers for relief are set forth in six paragraphs numbered 1 to 6, inclusive. Only numbers 1 and 2 were pressed; consequently, consideration has been limited to these two prayers...

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