Mutual Produce, Inc. v. Penn Central Transportation Co.

MEMORANDUM

TAURO, District Judge.

Three petitioners (“intervenors”) move to intervene as plaintiffs in approximately 600 freight claims disputes. Intervenors were owners or freight claims agents of the produce which is the subject matter of the underlying 600 cases.1 The produce was received by the named plaintiff, Mutual *620Produce, and was shipped by the defendant, Penn Central.

The original complaints in some 3,000 cases, including those subject to the instant motions to intervene, were filed between 1972 and 1978. In 1981, all the cases were administratively closed for lack of action over a…