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Murray, Receiver of Interborough Rapid Transit Co., v. City of New York et al.; and Roberts, Receiver of Manhattan Railway Co., v. Murray, Receiver, et al., 1940 — 311 U.S. 720 · caselaw · US
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Murray, Receiver of Interborough Rapid Transit Co., v. City of New York et al.; and Roberts, Receiver of Manhattan Railway Co., v. Murray, Receiver, et al.
311 U.S. 720·Supreme Court of the United States·1940
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Murray, Receiver of Interborough Rapid Transit Co., v. City of New York et al.; and Roberts, Receiver of Manhattan Railway Co., v. Murray, Receiver, et al.
September 18, 1940.
Messrs. Carl M. Owen, Nathan L. Miller, and James L. Quackehbush for Murray, Receiver of Interborough Rapid Transit Co.; Wilbur Cummings for Interborough Rapid Transit Co.; John W. Davis and Edwin S. S. Sunderland for Guaranty Trust Co. et al.; Phillip A. Cairroll for J. Herbert Cáse et al.; Jesse E. Waid and J. M: Hart field for Bankers Trust Co.; Louis Boehm for Norman Johnson et al.; and Ira W. Hirshfield for Dwight F. Faulkner, Jr. et al. Messrs. William C. Chanler, William G. Mulligan, Jr., Paxton Blair, and John D. Hill for the City of New York; John J. Curtin, Joseph H. Choate, Jr., and Chester W. Cuthell for the Transit Commission; Charles E. Hughes, Jr. and Allen S. Hubbard for Roberts, Receiver of the Manhattan Railway Co.; Harold C. McCollom for Central Hanover Bank; Arthur A. Gammell and Timothy N. Pfeiffer for Chase National Bank; Boykin C. Wright and Clifton Murphy for Van Santvoord Merle-Smith et al.; Rayford W. Alley for William S. Kies et al.; William V. Hodges for Nathan L. Amster et al.; Charles Franklin for Manhattan Ry. Go.; and John B. Doyle and Franklin C. Laughlin for Harold Palmer et al.
[MAJORITY]
Dismissed per stipulation pursuant to Rule 35.
Reported below: 103 F. 2d 889.