Bekins v. Lindsay-Strathmore Irr Dist.

MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

Appellee, Lindsay-Strathmore Irrigation District, has moved to dismiss an appeal from an interlocutory decree which, in a proceeding under chapter 9 (§§ 81-84) of the Bankruptcy Act,1 2confirmed a plan of composition and enjoined appellants, Milo W. Bekins and others, from commencing or continuing any suit against appellee on account of any indebtedness affected by the plan.

The ground of the motion is that the appeal was not taken within the time prescribed by law. The applicable law, appellee contends, is § 129 of the Judicial Code,2 which prescribes, as the time…