Brown Shoe Co. v. McKey

PAGE, Circuit Judge.

Petitioners, before bankruptcy, replevined merchandise from bankrupt, in the state court, on the ground that the purchase and possession had been obtained by means of fraudulent representations. Respondent, receiver in bankruptcy, filed petition in the bankruptcy court, asking that petitioners be restrained from any sale or disposition of the merchandise, that they bo directed to turn the same over.to the receiver, and that petitioners be compelled to litigate their rights in the bankruptcy court. On the same day that petition was filed the court, apparently without notice…