United States ex rel. Bills v. Perkins
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri; Charles B. Paris, Judge. Suit by the United States, at the relation and to the use of Frank E. Bills and H. E. Ewing, a partnership, etc., against Joseph R. Perkins, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of William C. Kaune, bankrupt, and another. Judgment of dismissal, and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the Court
VAN VARKENBURGH, District Judge.
This stiit was brought in the name of the United States and at the relation and to the use of plaintiffs in error, a copartnership doing business under the firm name and style of Frank R. Bills & Co. against Joseph R. Perkins, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of William C. Kaune, bankrupt, and the Bankers’ Surety Company, a corporation, and surety upon the bond of said trustee, to recover damages upon the trustee’s bond for alleged malfeasance of the trustee in the administration of said estate. The damages laid exceed the penal sum nominated in the bond.
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