WEST COAST LIFE INS. CO. v. MERCED IRR. DIST.

No. 9242.

114 F.2d 654 (1940)

WEST COAST LIFE INS. CO. et al. v. MERCED IRR. DIST.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1940.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Chas. L. Childers, of El Centro, Cal., for appellant West Coast Life Ins. Co.

Hugh K. McKevitt, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant Pacific Nat. Bank of S. F.

Clark, Nichols & Eltse and George Clark, all of Berkeley, Cal., for appellant Mary E. Morris.

Chase, Barnes & Chase and Lucius F. Chase, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants R. D. and Belle Crowell.

Peter tum Suden, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellants Rigby and tum Suden, etc.

David Freidenrich, of San Francisco, Cal., for appellant Claire Strauss.

Herman Phleger and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, all of San Francisco, and Evan Haynes, of Berkeley, Cal., for appellants Moore et al.

W. Coburn Cook, of Turlock, Cal., for appellants Bekins et al.

Hugh K. Landram and C. Ray Robinson, both of Merced, Cal., and Downey, Brand & Seymour and Stephen W. Downey, all of Sacramento, Cal., for appellee Merced Irr. Dist.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and STEPHENS, Circuit Judges.


STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.

Appellee Merced Irrigation District, an irrigation district organized under the provisions of the California Irrigation District Act, Cal.Stats. 1897, p. 254, as amended, Deering's General Laws, Act 3854, filed a petition for composition of debts under the provisions of Chapter IX of the Bankruptcy Act of 1898 as amended, 11 U.S.C.A. §§ 401-404. After a hearing of the petition, the District Court entered its interlocutory decree...

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