Exhibit 24(b)

                                CASE CORPORATION

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

                  CASE CORPORATION ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K



     The undersigned, in his capacity as a Director of Case Corporation, does
hereby appoint Theodore R. French, Richard S. Brennan and Kevin J. Hallagan, and
each of them, severally, his true and lawful attorneys, or attorney, to execute
in his name, place and stead, in his capacity as a Director of said Corporation,
an Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1998, and
any and all amendments to said Annual Report and to the Annual Report on Form
10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1997, and all instruments necessary
or incidental in connection therewith, and to file the same with the Securities
and Exchange Commission.  Each of such attorneys shall have the power to act
hereunder with or without the other of such attorneys and shall have full power
and authority to do and perform, in the name and on behalf of the undersigned,
in any and all capacities, every act whatsoever requisite or necessary to be
done in the premises, as fully and to all intents and purposes as the
undersigned might or could do in person, the undersigned hereby ratifying and
approving the acts of said attorneys and each of them.

     IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this instrument on this
1st day of March, 1999.



                                                   /s/ RONALD E. GOLDSBERRY
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                                          Ronald  E. Goldsberry