First Nat. Bank & Trust Co. of Bridgeport v. Beach

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order dismissing a petition of the debtor filed under section 75 (c) of the Bankruptcy Act (11 U. S.C.A. § 203 (c). On November 14, 1935, the debtor filed the petition, alleging that he was a farmer, and asking that he be given an opportunity to compromise or extend his debts. On the same day the judge approved the petition and referred the cause to the proper conciliation commissioner; so the matter stood on November twenty-first, when the First National Bank of Bridgeport, a creditor and mortgagee, moved the court that the proceeding be…