Anson J. Longtin and Lucille G. Longtin v. Oliver M. Rutter, Trustee of the Estates of Anson J. Longtin and Lucille G. Longtin, Bankrupts

Appellants appeal from an order dismissing their petition for review of a referee’s order approving the compromise and settlement of unliquidated claims, litigation on which was pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California at the time of the adjudication in bankruptcy.

We find nothing in the record to distinguish this case from Skelton v. Clements, 408 F.2d 353 (9th Cir. 1969). The recent case of Marks v. Brucker, 434 F.2d 897 (9th Cir. 1970), cited by appellants, involved a claim against the bankrupt’s estate, rather than an unliquidated claim of the…