Legal Opinion
Chicot County Drainage District v. Baxter State Bank
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided January 2, 1940No. 122PublishedCited by 1,198 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Hughes
Respondents brought this suit in the United States District Court for the Western Division of the Eastern District of Arkansas to recover on fourtéen bonds of $1,000 each, which had been issued in 1924 by the petitioner, Chicot County Drainage District, organized under statutes of Arkansas, 1 and had been in default since 1932.
In its answer, petitioner pleaded a decree of the same District Court in a proceeding instituted by petitioner to effect a plan of readjustment of its indebtedness under the Act of May 24, • 1934, 2 providing for “Municipal-Debt Readjustments.” The decree recited that a…
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