IN RE COMMONWEALTH & SOUTHERN CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 1175.

84 F.Supp. 809 (1949)

In re COMMONWEALTH & SOUTHERN CORPORATION.

United States District Court D. Delaware.

July 6, 1949.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harry G. Slater, Sidney Shemel and Joseph M. Paul, Jr., of Washington, D. C., for the Securities and Exchange Commission.

George Roberts, John C. Weadock, Hayden N. Smith, Allison Choate and George L. Brain (of Winthrop, Stimson, Putnam & Roberts), of New York City, for Commonwealth & Southern Corporation.

Alfred J. Snyder and Elizabeth C. Lownsbury, of Philadelphia, Pa., common stockholders, for themselves, various other common stockholders and option warrant holders.

George S. Munson (of Townsend, Elliott & Munson), of Philadelphia, Pa., for Edward Hopkinson, Jr., et al., as Committee for Preferred Stockholders of Commonwealth & Southern Corporation.

William Clarke Mason, Thomas B. K. Ringe, H. Orvel Sebring, Jr., and Martin P. Snyder (of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius), of Philadelphia, Pa., and Garfield Scott, of Philadelphia, Pa., for The United Gas Improvement Corporation, a preferred stockholder.

John Schulman (of Hays, St. John, Abramson & Schulman), of New York City, for Arthur W. Loew, a common stockholder.

Lawrence E. Brown, of Scottsboro, Ala., an option warrant holder, for himself and other option warrant holders.

M. Victor Leventritt, of New York City, for Adelaide H. Knight, option warrant holder.

George Rosier, of New York City, for Investment Associates, a common stockholder.

Samuel Zinman, of New York City, a preferred stockholder, for himself and preferred stockholders.


LEAHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves an amended plan of The Commonwealth & Southern Corporation, a registered holding company, filed under § 11(e) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935.1 The SEC entered its Findings and Opinion2 and at the request of The Commonwealth & Southern Corporation applied to this court to enforce and carry out the amended plan.

The amended plan has...

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