In re Stacy’s Empirical Analysis

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7 federal appellate · 1 district · 1 state decisions

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1. ““Section 75, under which the present proceeding was brought, was enacted by Congress March 3, 1933, for the purpose of aiding farmers to procure extensions or compositions with their creditors, and it is therein provided in subdivision (o), 11 US CA § 203 (o) that suit shall not be instituted or maintained in any court against the farmer or his property, after the filing of the petition, for foreclosure of a mortgage on land or for cancellation, rescission, or specific performance of an agreement for sale of land or to recover possession of land. Under subdivision (n), 11 USCA § 203 (n) the filing of the petition subjects the farmer and his property, wherever located, to the exclusive jurisdiction of the court, and the court’s jurisdiction is the same as if a voluntary petition for adjudication had been filed. “These sections extend the jurisdiction of the bankruptcy court in the respects mentioned, but they are silent as to any power in the court to take possession of and administer real property, the possession of which another court has, prior to filing of the petition, directed should be delivered to a third person. Congress has not vested in the court of bankruptcy any right to sit as a court of review of a final judgment obtained in a state court fixing property rights. It is vested with jurisdiction to stay suits brought to recover dischargeable debts and to stay proceedings upon judgments obtained within four months prior to the filing of .petition to recover discharg”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Compton v. Birnie Trust Co.

2. ““I am in full accord with that holding. The court clearly demonstrates that it was not the intention of the act to toll the period of redemption by the mere filing of the petition for composition or extension under section 75, Agricultural Compositions and Extensions, at least without any proceedings to enjoin the foreclosure of the mortgage or interfere with the running of the time for redemption.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Layton v. Layton