EVERGREEN FARMS CO. v. WILLACY COUNTY WATER CONTROL & IMPROVEMENT DIST. NO. 1.

No. 9954.

124 F.2d 1 (1941)

EVERGREEN FARMS CO. et al. v. WILLACY COUNTY WATER CONTROL & IMPROVEMENT DIST. NO. 1.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 12, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. E. Wilkins and Orville I. Cox, both of Mission, Tex., and C. D. Jessup, of Houston, Tex., for appellants.

Sawnie B. Smith, of Edinburg, Tex., and John D. McCall and Millard Parkhurst, both of Dallas, Tex., for appellee.

Before FOSTER and McCORD, Circuit Judges, and DAWKINS, District Judge.


DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellee applied for relief under Chapter 9 of the Chandler Act 11 U.S.C.A. § 401 et seq., applicable to municipal corporations. The appellant, a partnership, indebted to the District for water rents, etc., pleaded as an offset thereto a claim assigned to it by one of the members of the partnership, but as to which the District had no notice until several months after this proceeding was filed...

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