In the Matters of Inland Gas Corporation, Kentucky Fuel Gas Corporation, American Fuel & Power Company, Debtors

MARTIN, Circuit Judge.

We would need go to fiction rather than to the case books to find an appropriate parallel to this prolonged litigation. See Jarndyce v. Jarndyce, reported in “Bleak House” by Charles Dickens. The controversy presented by the present appeals evolves from an equity receivership instituted in late 1930, followed by proceedings under section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act and finally by corporate reorganization proceedings under Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 501 et seq. The two separate appeals which bring the case to us again at this late date are from an order…