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IN RE 620 CHURCH ST. CORP.

No. 271.

299 U.S. 24 (1936)

57 S.Ct. 88

81 L.Ed. 16

IN THE MATTER OF 620 CHURCH STREET BUILDING CORP. ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided November 9, 1936.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. Theodore E. Rein and Isaac M. Mills for petitioners.

Mr. Isaac E. Ferguson, with whom Messrs. Hugo Sonnenschein and Herbert M. Lautmann were on the brief, for Louis M. Quitman et al., first mortgage trustees, respondents.

Mr. George T. Buckingham, with whom Messrs. Don Kenneth Jones and Edwin L. Harding were on the brief, for Chester R. Davis et al., members of the bondholders committee, respondents.

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

In this proceeding under § 77B of the Bankruptcy Act, the District Court confirmed a plan of reorganization. Petitioners asked the Circuit Court of Appeals to allow an appeal upon the ground that the plan was unfair and inequitable and deprived them of their property without due process of law in violation of the Fifth Amendment. Bankruptcy Act, §§ 24 (b), 77B (k); Meyer v. Kenmore...

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