Legal Opinion
In re Literary Digest, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 15, 1940No. 132Published
1Opinion of the Court
CHASE, Circuit Judge.
On March 16, 1938, The Literary Digest, Inc., filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under the provisions of Sec. 77B, of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 207, in the District Court for the Southern District of New York. The petition was approved the next- day and on the following May 24th an order providing for the liquidation of the' debtor was entered.
On September 3, 1938, Publishers Guild, Inc., filed a claim in the proceedings and amended its claim on November 4, 1938 by increasing it to the sum of $40,743.69 as its damages resulting from an alleged breach by…
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- Snyder v. PharoUnited States Circuit Court · 1885
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