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Corporations
Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co. et al.; Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Denver & Salt Lake Western Railroad Co. et al.; Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co., Trustee, et al.; and Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Thompson, Trustee, et al.
326 U.S. 699·Supreme Court of the United States·1945
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Opinion
Nos. 278 and 281.
No. 279.
No. 280.
No. 282.
Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co. et al.; Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Denver & Salt Lake Western Railroad Co. et al.; Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. City Bank Farmers Trust Co., Trustee, et al.; and Reconstruction Finance Corporation et al. v. Thompson, Trustee, et al.
October 8, 1945.
Acting Solicitor General Judson, Messrs. John W. Davis, Edwin S. S. Sunderland, James L. Homire, Thomas O’G. FitzGibbon, Judson C. McLester, Jr., Henry W. Anderson, George D. Gibson, W. A. W. Stewart, Arthur A. Gammell, John W. Drye, Jr. and George L. Shearer for petitioners.
[MAJORITY]
Petition for writs of certiorari to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit granted.
Messrs. William V. Hodges and Frank C. Nicodemus, Jr. for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad Co., and Messrs. Edward E. Watts, Jr. and Peter H. Holme for the City Bank Farmers Trust Co., respondents.
Reported below: 150 F. 2d 28.