P. G. Griffin v. A. L. Kelley, Jr., Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Estate of Clifford H. Brown, Bankrupt

CAMERON, Circuit Judge.

We are asked to reverse as clearly erroneous a judgment of the District Court denying a petition by appellant to review an order of a referee in bankruptcy rejecting a secured claim filed by appellant, on the ground that the claim was based on a mortgage which was fi’audu- lent and void and which was given without consideration, to appellant by Brown, the bankrupt. 1 Appellant claimed to have loaned the bankrupt $5,000.00 in cash about three months before the bankruptcy, taking a thirty day note secured by mortgage, which he foreclosed prior to joining in the…