Exhibit 31

                    Certification Pursuant to Rule 13a-14(a)
     As Adopted Pursuant to Section 302(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


I, Lester J. Mantell, a Trustee and the functional equivalent of the Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this quarterly report on Form 10-Q of the City Investing
Company Liquidating Trust;

2. Based on my knowledge, this quarterly report does not contain any untrue
statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make
the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this quarterly
report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial
information included in this quarterly report, fairly present in all material
respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the
registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this quarterly report;

4. I am responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and
procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and
internal control over financial reporting as defined in Exchange Act Rules
13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) for the registrant and I have:


a) Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure
controls and procedures to be designed under my supervision, to ensure that
material information relating to the registrant is made known to me by others
within the registrant, particularly during the period in which this quarterly
report is being prepared; b) Designed such internal control over financial
reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be
designed under my supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the
reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements
for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles; c) Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant's disclosure
controls and procedures and presented in this quarterly report my conclusions
about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end
of the period covered by this quarterly report based on such evaluation; and d)
Disclosed in this quarterly report any change in the registrant's internal
control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant's most
recent fiscal quarter that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to
materially affect, the registrant's internal control over financial reporting;
and

5. I have disclosed, based on my most recent evaluation of internal control over
financial reporting, to the registrant's auditors and the Audit Committee of
registrant's Trustees: a) all significant deficiencies and material weaknesses
in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which
are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant's ability to record,
process, summarize and report financial information; and b) any fraud, whether
or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a
significant role in the registrant's internal control over financial reporting.




                                            By:      /s/ Lester J. Mantell
         Dated: April 29, 2005                  --------------------------------