Ex parte Thomas

We have considered the petition of W. Bissell Thomas and William B. O’Connell for leave to proceed further in the District Court in Equity Case No. 53,-117. Petitioners seek to reopen the trial court’s decree of December 1, 1932, confirming the sale under the deed of trust of a number of properties owned by Wardman Real Estate Properties, Inc. They assert that the decree was obtained in pursuance of a fraudulent scheme detrimental to the interests of former bondholders. These same assertions were formally presented to. the trial court by petitoners prior to the decree, but the judge made a…