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Massachusetts et al. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; and Chapin et al., Executive Committee for Institutional Group, v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.
325 U.S. 884·Supreme Court of the United States·1945
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Opinion
No. 1315.
No. 1316.
Massachusetts et al. v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co.; and Chapin et al., Executive Committee for Institutional Group, v. New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Co. et al.
June 18, 1945.
Clarence A. Barnes, Attorney General of Massachusetts, George P. Drury, Assistant Attorney General, and Mr. Jacob Spiegel for the State of Massachusetts, and Messrs. Henry E. Foley and Robert H. Davison for the City of Boston et al., petitioners in No. 1315. Messrs. Henry W. Anderson and Curtiss K. Thompson for petitioners in No. 1316. Messrs. John W. Davis, Edwin S. S. Sunderland, Judson C. McLester, Jr., James L. Homire, John L. Hall, James Garfield, Fred N. Oliver, Willard P. Scott, William A. W. Stewart, M’Cready Sykes, H. C. McCollom, Edward E. Watts, Jr., George E. Beers, Jesse E. Waid and Edmund Ruffin Beckwith for respondents.
[MAJORITY]
Petitions for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit denied.
Reported below: 147 F. 2d 40.