Town of Belleair v. Groves

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

Proceeding under Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act,1 the Town of Belleair, Florida, filed a petition for confirmation of a plan of composition of its debts. Upon the first hearing of the petition the district judge refused to confirm the plan, on the ground, among others, that the plan discriminated unfairly between creditors of the same class, and the City was given sixty days in which to file an amended plan. After an attempt to appeal from that order failed,2 an amended plan was filed, which wholly failed to satisfy the objections pointed out by the court on the…