In re San Filippo

OLIVER J. CARTER, District Judge.

The matter before this Court is a petition for review of an order of a referee in bankruptcy. The order in question appointed a trustee in bankruptcy after an election contest. Petitioners are creditors whose claims were disqualified by the referee from being voted in the election contest.

Before the bankrupt filed his voluntary petition in bankruptcy, he made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, naming Walter J. Hempy, who is the Secretary of the Board of Trade of San Francisco, as assignee. At a general meeting of creditors a creditors’…