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SOUTHERN LAND TITLE CORPORATION v. MITCHELL

No. 24447.

375 F.2d 874 (1967)

SOUTHERN LAND TITLE CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. Honorable Lansing L. MITCHELL, Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Respondent.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

April 6, 1967.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Welch, Jr., Houston, Tex., James J. Morrison, Cicero C. Sessions, New Orleans, La., for petitioner.

John F. Connolly, Moise S. Steeg, Jr., Lee C. Grevemberg, Clifton S. Carl, J. Barnwell Phelps, J. B. Kiefer, Harry T. Howard III, Gibbons Burke, New Orleans, La., Tom H. Matheny, Hammond, La., Mettery I. Sherry, Jr., New Orleans, La., Donald S. Zuber, Baton Rouge, La., for respondent.

Before WISDOM and GODBOLD, Circuit Judges, and McRAE, District Judge.

PER CURIAM:

The sole question for decision in this mandamus proceeding is whether the district court abused its discretion in dismissing the debtor corporation's petition for reorganization under Chapter X of the Bankruptcy Act without hearing oral testimony. We hold that on the face of the record as it existed February 3, 1967, the district court did not abuse its discretion in disapproving and dismissing the petition. If the court erred, Congress has provided a...

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