IN RE PENN CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY

Nos. 74-3, 74-5, 74-4, 74-2 and 74-1.

382 F.Supp. 453 (1974)

In the Matter of PENN CENTRAL TRANSPORTATION COMPANY, Debtor. In the Matter of READING COMPANY, Debtor. In the Matter of LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD COMPANY, Debtor. In the Matter of The CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY OF NEW JERSEY, Debtor. In the Matter of The LEHIGH AND HUDSON RIVER RAILWAY COMPANY, Debtor.

Special Court Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973.

Decided May 24, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph Auerbach, Boston, Mass. (Morris Raker, Charles W. Morse, Jr., Sullivan & Worcester, Boston, Mass., James Wm. Moore, New Haven, Conn., of counsel), for appellant Richard Joyce Smith, Trustee of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co.

Gordon P. MacDougall, Washington, D. C. (Israel Packel, Atty. Gen., Harrisburg, Pa., of counsel), for appellant Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Howard H. Lewis, Philadelphia, Pa. (Obermayer, Rebmann, Maxwell & Hippel, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel), for appellees Joseph L. Castle and Andrew L. Lewis, Jr., Trustees of the property of Reading Co.

James F. Dausch, Washington, D. C. (Carla A. Hills, David J. Anderson, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., of counsel), for the United States of America as intervenor-appellee.

Timothy V. Smith, New York City, for appellee John G. Troiano, Trustee of the property of The Lehigh and Hudson River Railway Co.

Before FRIENDLY, Presiding Judge, and McGOWAN and THOMSEN, Judges.


PER CURIAM:

We have before us five appeals from "120-day decisions" under the first sentence of § 207(b) of the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973 (the Act). In Docket 74-3 Richard Joyce Smith, Trustee of the property of The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company (the New Haven Trustee), a creditor of Penn Central Transportation Company (Penn Central), appeals from an order of Judge Fullam in the District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania...

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