Legal Opinion

In re Cities Service Co.

District Court, D. Delaware

Decided June 10, 1947No. Civil Action No. 1028PublishedCited by 7 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LEAHY, District Judge.

At the hearing, I approved the plan from the bench, but informed counsel that I would file a memorandum on the question whether the preferred should receive debentures in the principal amount sufficient to cover their liquidating claim which includes the redemption figure. I túrn now to a consideration of this feature of the plan.

The test always in these cases is whether the proposed plan is- fair and equitable to the security holders affected by it. As I pointed out in In the Matter of Interstate Power Company, D.C.Del., 71 F.Supp. 164, but which still does not seem to…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P.R. Co., and 9 Other CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
  2. Otis & Co. v. Securities & Exchange CommissionSupreme Court of the United States · 1945
  3. In Re Securities and Exchange CommissionCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1944
  4. In Re United Light & Power Co.District Court, D. Delaware · 1943
  5. In Re Consolidated Electric & Gas Co.District Court, D. Delaware · 1944

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3Cited by7 opinions

  1. Cities Service Company, Plaintiff-Appellee-Appellant v. United States of America, Defendant-Appellant-AppelleeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
  2. In re Engineers Public Service Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1948
  3. Cities Service Company v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1970
  4. In re Central States Power & Light Corp.District Court, D. Delaware · 1947
  5. Cities Service Co. v. United StatesDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1978

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