Miller v. Woolley

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the United States District Court reversing an order of the referee in bankruptcy which required the appellee to pay to the trustee in bankruptcy the sum of $5,950 1 2 which had been paid to appellee by John Barrymore as a part of the fee in a divorce case instituted by John Barrymore while a proceeding for an arrangement between Barrymore and his creditors, under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Act, was in progress. Concurrently with the filing of his petition for arrangement, under 11 U.S.C.A. § 722, on June 5, 1940, the debtor, John…