PETITION OF HEALING & SON, INC.

Civ. No. 554-50.

124 F.Supp. 46 (1954)

Petition of HEALING & SON, Inc. and 56 Other Cases. THE KENNETH E. HEALING. THE JAMES HEALING. THE EUGENE F. HEALING. THE GEORGE J. HEALING.

United States District Court D. New Jersey.

July 29, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carpenter, Gilmour & Dwyer, James D. Carpenter, Jersey City, N. J., Thomas Kennedy, Passaic, N. J., of counsel, for Pennsylvania R. R.

Emory, Langan & Lamb, James J. Langan, Jersey City, N. J., for Baltimore & O. R. R.

Toner, Crowley, Woelper & Ackerman, John A. Ackerman, Newark, N. J., for A. & M. Trading Corp., and others.

Kristeller & Zucker, Lionel P. Kristeller, Newark, N. J., for Bernard Ackerman, and others.

Harry Green, Little Silva, N. J., Samuel A. Bloom, Newark, N. J., for Dewey J. Smith, and others.

John W. Taylor, William F. Little, Jr., Newark, N. J., for Seaboard Coal & Dock Co., Inc.

Wilentz, Goldman, Spitzer & Sills, by David T. Wilentz, Perth Amboy, N. J., for Aetna Casualty & Surety Co., and others.

Stryker, Tams & Horner, by Burtis S. Horner, Newark, N. J., Louis J. Milano, South River, N. J., John P. McGuire, Perth Amboy, N. J., for American Agricultural Chemical Co.

Shaw, Hughes & Pindar, by John E. Hughes, Newark, N. J., Jerome L. Yesko, Paterson, N. J., Harry Lane, Jr., Red Bank, N. J., John C. Stockel, Perth Amboy, N. J., for Catherine C. Dugan, Adm. Ad Pros., for Estate of Joseph A. Dugan.

Rafferty & Blacher, by Philip Blacher, New Brunswick, N. J., for Sun Oil Co.

Nathan Baker, Newark, N. J., for Ethel Healing, Admrx., and others.

Smith, Slingerland, Trauth & Holtz, Elmer F. Holtz, Newark, N. J., for National Carloading Co.

Pitney, Hardin & Ward, Frank C. O'Brien, Newark, N. J., for Hercules Powder Co.

Katzenbach, Gildea & Rudner, George Gildea, Trenton, N. J., for Reading Company.

Pierre P. Garven, Asst. U. S. Atty., Ridgewood, N. J., for the United States.

John G. Flanigan, Jersey City, N. J., Macklin, Speer, Hanan & McKernan, Richard S. Leahy, New York City, of counsel, for Burns Bros., Louis O'Donnell, Hugh O'Donnell and O'Donnell Transporation Co., Anthony Boyle, Inc., M. & J. Tracy, Inc., D. J. Sargent and Sargent Line Corp., Sinram Brothers, Inc. and Long Island Lighting Company.


FORMAN, Chief Judge.

Pennsylvania Railroad Company moved for an order pursuant to Rule 42(a)1 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, 28 U.S.C., to consolidate fifty-six other pending suits2 arising out of the South Amboy explosion of May 19, 19503 for the purpose of trial to the end that they should be heard in admiralty in the limitation of liability action entitled In the Matter...

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