Du Pont v. Okeechobee County

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

In a proceeding to compose the debts of Okeechobee County, Florida, under Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act, being the Act of August 16, 1937, 50 Stats, p. 653, as amended by the Chandler Act of June 22, 1938, 52 Stats, page 939, and by the Act of June 28, 1940, 54 Stats, p. 667, 11 U.S.C.A. § 401 et seq., an interlocutory decree was made affirming a plan of composition, and an appeal was taken which was abandoned and dismissed. Alfred I. DuPont Testamentary Trust v. Okeechobee County, 5 Cir., 128 F.2d 451. Thereafter on Aug. 24, 1942, a final decree in the cause was…