Union Joint Stock Land Bank of Detroit v. Byerly

Mr. Justice Black, Mr. Justice Douglas, and Mr. Justice Murphy,

dissenting.

We believe that to deny this farmer the benefits of the Act because the purchase by the mortgagee at the sheriff’s sale was confirmed during the short interval between the dismissal of his petition and its reinstatement, would be largely to defeat the purposes of the Act.

After the original subsection (s) of the Frazier-Lemke Act was declared unconstitutional by the decision of this Court, May 27,1935,1 this farmer’s petition was dismissed, August 26, 1935. A scant two days after the dismissal, August 28, Congress…