TENNESSEE PUB. CO. v. AMER. NAT. BANK

No. 48.

299 U.S. 18 (1936)

TENNESSEE PUBLISHING CO. v. AMERICAN NATIONAL BANK ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 9, 1936.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. A.H. Roberts and Lewis S. Pope for petitioner.

Mr. Cecil Sims for respondents.


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

The Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a decree of the District Court dismissing the petition of the debtor, Tennessee Publishing Company, and its plans of reorganization, in a proceeding under § 77 B of the Bankruptcy Act. The court held (1) that the debtor's proposal was not a workable one and hence had not been presented in good faith as that phrase was used in the statute; and (2) that sub-section...

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