Legal Opinion
Von Leidersdorff v. City Mortgage & Ins. Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 10, 1950No. 6027_1Published
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
John Von Leidersdorff was denied the benefits of Section 75 of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 203, when he filed a petition to effect a composition with his creditors and the petition was denied by the District Court on the ground that he was not a farmer within the meaning of Section 75, sub. r of the statute. There is much in the evidence to explain the action of the District Court if attention is confined to the financial difficulties and distress suffered by many farmers which the original Frazier-Lemke Act of 1934 and the Amended Act of 1935 were passed to…
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