MESA FARM COMPANY v. UNITED STATES

No. 71-1121.

475 F.2d 1004 (1973)

In the Matter of MESA FARM COMPANY, a partnership composed of James V. Pettitt and George W. Ross, Bankrupt No. 110092, and Mesa Farms, Inc., a California corporation, Bankrupt No. 110091, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

March 9, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Henry Cohen (argued), Burlingame, Cal., for appellants.

Anthony J. Steinmeiyer, Atty. (argued), Alan S. Rosenthal, Morton Hollander, Leonard Schaitman, Attys., L. Patrick Gray, III, Asst. Atty. Gen., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James L. Browning, Jr., U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., for appellee.

Before HAMLIN and TRASK, Circuit Judges, and SOLOMON, District Judge.


HAMLIN, Circuit Judge.

Mesa Farm Company and Mesa Farms, Inc., appeal from a denial by the United States District Court for the Northern District of California of a petition for review of the Referee in Bankruptcy's order directing them to pay an additional $22,200 into the Referees' Salary and Expense Fund (hereinafter Fund).

The sole issue presented is a question of first impression, to wit: whether the Judicial...

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