Irwin v. Wren

The respondents earnestly contend that the 1935 moratorium act is unconstitutional insofar as it attempts to provide for the extension of the period of redemption where courts have already fixed the terms and defined the limits of such periods under the 1933 act. We do not so consider it. The 1933 act expired by limitation on May 1, 1935, if the emergency continued until then. Under § 5 of that act, as we construe it, the court might upon a proper showing reëxtend the period of redemption within the stated limit where it had already once extended it. The act of 1935 in effect extended the…