Court Opinion

ID: 9638509
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 15:45:46.794412+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:07.304566
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HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.
I dissent. Sec. 203(s) Title 11, U.S.C. A. without exception, limitation or qualification provides: “(s) Any farmer failing to obtain the acceptance of a majority in number and amount of all creditors whose claims are affected by a composition and/or extension proposal, or if he feels aggrieved by the composition and/or extension, may amend his petition or answer, asking to be adjudged a bankrupt.”
*822The majority opinion, on the authority of Baxter v. Savings Bank, 5 Cir., 92 F.2d 404, denies this farmer this right.
In Bartels v. John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company, 5 Cir., 100 F.2d 813, this day decided, the majority is disapproving the holdings in the Baxter Case, that the right of the farmer to ask to be adjudged a bankrupt under .subsec. (s) is qualified by, indeed is dependent upon, whether his proposition for a composition under preceding subdivisions is deemed to have been made in good faith.
For the reasons given in the majority opinion in the Bartels Case, I respectfully dissent from the opinion of the majority, in this one.