Legal Opinion
Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias v. O'CONNOR
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 16, 1938No. 8637PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from an order dismissing appellant’s petition for reorganization, filed under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, as amended, 11 U.S.C.A. § 207.
The petition alleged the pendency in the state court of receivership proceedings against it; that though they had been pending for two years and ten months, nothing had been done to retire its obligations or save its property; that there was an equity for those interested which, under the reorganization plan petitioner proposed, would be saved; and that the state receiver was about to sacrifice this equity by a…
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