Erie-Lackawanna Company v. United States

Edward W. Bourne, for applicant Erie-Lackawanna R. Co.

Harry G. Silleck, Jr., for applicant Delaware & Hudson R. Corp.

George L. Saunders, Jr., Howard J. Trienens and Edward K. Wheeler, for applicants Baltimore & O. R. Co. and others.

Gordon P. MacDougall, for applicants certain New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities.

Gordon P. MacDougall, Israel Packel and Arthur A. Arsham, for applicant Shapp.

Robert W. Ginnane and Fritz R. Kahn, for Interstate Commerce Commission.

Hugh B. Cox, Henry P. Sailer and Windsor F. Cousins, for Pennsylvania R. Co.

James B. Gray, for the New York Cent. R. Co.

Joseph Auerbach, for Trustees of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. Co.

Harold M. Mulvey, Atty. Gen., and Samuel Kanell and William J. Lynch, Sp. Asst. Attys. Gen., for the State of Connecticut.

Edward W. Brooke, Atty. Gen., and David Berman, Asst. Atty. Gen., for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

J. Joseph Nugent, Atty. Gen., and Robert M. Schacht, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for the State of Rhode Island.

Louis J. Lefkowitz, Atty. Gen., Dunton F. Tynan, Asst. Sol. Gen., Mortimer Sattler, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Walter J. Myskowski, for the State of New York.

Donald L. Wallace, for Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce and Chamber of Commerce of Greater Pittsburgh.

Applications for Stay.

Applications for a stay of enforcement of an order of the Interstate Commerce Commission authorizing a merger of the Pennsylvania R. Co. and the New York Central R. Co., pending this Court's determination of appeals from a decision of a three-judge district court in the Southern District of New York, 259 F.Supp. 964 sustaining the Commission's order, have been submitted to Mr. Justice HARLAN, as the Associate Justice assigned to the Second Circuit, by eight railroad companies, a number of New Jersey and Pennsylvania communities, and a Pennsylvania R. Co. stockholder.