In Re Market Basket, Inc.

WHITTAKER, District Judge.

Initiation of this proceeding, if in fact it was ever initiated or in truth may be called a proceeding, in this court was by the ex parte presentation by an assistant District Attorney to the former Judge of this court of a form of order, on September 9, 1953, which the court signed, reciting that: (1) on September 1, 1953 the Director of Internal Revenue had issued a warrant of distraint against the store fixtures and equipment of Market Basket, Inc., located at 8215 Troost Avenue in Kansas City, (2) but that pri- or thereto, on February 12, 1953, an action had been…