In re Leveen

FORD, District Judge.

The respondent in this involuntary bankruptcy proceeding has filed exceptions to the report of the referee, sitting as special master to whom the case had been referred to consider issues raised in paragraph four of the bankruptcy petition. The precise issue before the master was whether the alleged bankrupt committed the first act of bankruptcy by transferring, in fraud of creditors, certain land with buildings thereon situated in Nantucket.

The master found that the real estate in question consists of two adjoining tracts of land of which Lena Leveen, the alleged…