Legal Opinion
In the Matter of Boston and Maine Corporation, Debtor v. The First National Bank of Boston
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 13, 1980No. 79-1368PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
This appeal focuses on another chapter 1 in the continuing effort to reorganize the Boston and Maine Corporation. This one involves the reduction of corporate debt through the purchase of first mortgage bonds. The issues presented are: (1) whether the district court supervising the reorganization (the Reorganization Court) abused its discretion in dismissing bondholders’ petitions requesting payment of interest 2 on all first mortgage bonds for the twelve to fifteen months of delay in approval of the bond tender offer caused by the assertion of Interstate Commerce Corn-…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Vanston Bondholders Protective Committee v. GreenSupreme Court of the United States · 1947
- Group of Institutional Investors v. Chicago, M., St. P. & P.R. Co., and 9 Other CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
- Ecker v. Western Pacific R. Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1943
- New Haven Inclusion CasesSupreme Court of the United States · 1970
- S. S. Silberblatt, Inc., and the Travelers Indemnity Company v. United States of America, for the Use and Benefit of Lambert CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1965
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3Cited by17 opinions
- In Re CoughlinBankruptcy Appellate Panel of the First Circuit · 1983
- Applewood Landscape & Nursery Co., Inc. v. Wayne B. HollingsworthCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1989
- In Re Garland Corp., Bankruptcy Appellate Panel of Massachusetts1980
- 9 Collier bankr.cas.2d 1377, Bankr. L. Rep. P 69,412 in Re Boston and Maine Corporation, Debtor. Appeal of City of CambridgeCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
- In re Boston & Maine Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1983
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