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UNITED STATES v. BEKINS,

Nos. 757 and 772.

304 U.S. 27 (1938)

UNITED STATES v. BEKINS ET AL., TRUSTEES, ET AL. LINDSAY-STRATHMORE IRRIGATION DISTRICT v. BEKINS ET AL., TRUSTEES, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided April 25, 1938.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Hatton W. Sumners for the Committee on Judiciary of the House of Representatives of the United States. as amicus curiae, by special leave of Court.

Messrs. W. Coburn Cook and Charles L. Childers, with whom Mr. Maurice E. Harrison was on the briefs, for appellees.

MR. CHIEF JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.

These are direct appeals from the judgment of the District Court for the Southern District of California under the Act of August 24, 1937, c. 754, 50 Stat. 751. They present the question of the constitutional validity of the Act of August 16, 1937, 50 Stat. 653, amending the Bankruptcy Act by adding Chapter X providing for the composition of indebtedness of the taxing...

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