Hollywood Plays, Inc. v. Columbia Pictures Corp.

Woods’ whole interest in the play-passed, automatically and by operation of law, and regardless of statements in the schedules, to Woods’ trustee in bankruptcy (U. S. Code, tit. 11, § 110; see Stephan v. Merchants Collateral Corp., 256 N. Y. 418, 422; First Nat. Bank v. Lasater, 196 U. S. 115, 119; Gray v. Gudger, 260 F. 931, 932). Thereafter the trustee sold and transferred that whole interest, formerly of Woods, to plaintiffs’ predecessor, as appears without doubt from the trustee’s notice of sale, his statements at the sale, the referee’s order of confirmation and the trustee’s bill of…