O'Connell v. Johanson

SPARKS, Circuit Judge.

These appeals seek to review two orders of the District Court, sitting as a court of bankruptcy. The first order confirmed an order of a referee in bankruptcy denying appellant’s motion for permission to file his petition to vacate an order confirming a composition agreement under section 74 of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended (11 USCA § 202). The second order overruled appellant’s exceptions to the master’s report and denied his motion to dismiss the petition of Simon Johanson, individually and as trustee, for want of jurisdiction.

We are first confronted with appellees’…