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Protective Committee for Bonds of Old Colony Railroad Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.; and Institutional Group for Boston Terminal Bonds v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al., 1947 — 331 U.S. 858 · caselaw · US
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Protective Committee for Bonds of Old Colony Railroad Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.; and Institutional Group for Boston Terminal Bonds v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.
331 U.S. 858·Supreme Court of the United States·1947
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Opinion
No. 1368.
Protective Committee for Bonds of Old Colony Railroad Co. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.; and Institutional Group for Boston Terminal Bonds v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.
No. 1369.
June 23, 1947.
Joseph B. Ely for petitioners in No. 1368. Henry W. Anderson, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. and Curtiss K. Thompson for petitioners in No. 1369. John W. Davis, Edwin S. S. Sunderland, Judson C. McLester, Jr., John L. Hall, James Garfield, George E. Beers, Edmund Ruffin Beckwith, Fred N. Oliver, Willard P. Scott, M’Cready Sykes, H. C. McCollom, Edward E. Watts, Jr. and Jesse E. Waid for respondents. With them on the brief in No. 1368 was John E. Masten. Acting Solicitor General Washington and W. Meade Fletcher filed a memorandum for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
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Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
Reported below: 161 F. 2d 413.