Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District

I cannot agree that this case should be summarily remanded. In June, 1941, the District filed an application for composition of its debts. The petitioners here filed a motion to dismiss, which was overruled. They appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals, making contentions which that court found to be “technical in the extreme.” Kelley v. Everglades Drainage District, 127 F. 2d 808, 809. When the case came back before the Circuit Court of Appeals in the instant proceedings, that court found from the entire record that these petitioners had by “unfounded and extremely technical contentions .…