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STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE v. BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION

Civ. A. No. 2570.

251 F.Supp. 421 (1965)

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, Plaintiff, v. BOSTON AND MAINE CORPORATION, United States of America, and Interstate Commerce Commission, Defendants.

United States District Court D. New Hampshire.

December 28, 1965.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene C. Struckhoff, Sp. Asst. to the Atty. Gen. of New Hampshire, George Pappagianis, Deputy Atty. Gen. of New Hampshire, Concord, N. H., for plaintiff.

John N. Nassikas and Wiggin, Nourie, Sundeen, Nassikas & Pingree, Manchester, N. H., Henri F. Rush, Jr., Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, New York City, for Boston & Maine Corp.

Nicholas de B. Katzenbach, Atty. Gen. of the U. S., William H. Orrick, Jr., and Donald F. Turner, Asst. Attys. Gen., Robert B. Hummel and John H. D. Wigger, Attys., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., and Louis M. Janelle, U. S. Atty., Concord, N. H., for the United States.

Robert W. Ginnane, Gen. Counsel, Leonard S. Goodman, Asst. Gen. Counsel, Washington, D. C., for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Chester S. Ketcham, Deputy Atty. Gen. of Vermont, Montpelier, Vt., for the State of Vermont, amicus curiae.

Edward F. McLaughlin, Jr., Jamaica Plain, Mass., for Massachusetts Bay Transp. Authority.

Before WOODBURY, Senior Circuit Judge, and SWEENEY and CONNOR, District Judges.

SWEENEY, District Judge.

On June 24, 1964, the Boston and Maine Corporation (B & M), pursuant to Section 13a(1) of the Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. § 13a(1), filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission, mailed to the respective Governors of New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Massachusetts, and posted in its stations notices that it intended, effective August 8, 1964, to discontinue all passenger train service (40 trains) between Boston and points in...

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