In re Hammett

SIBLEY, District Judge.

The trustee in bankruptcy seeking to sell' land was met by a deed made by the bankrupt to another and recorded more than four months before the bankruptcy. The deed was attacked before the referee as 'being insufficiently attested for record, who heard, over objection, parol evidence sustaining the deed, ansi' r--- — --- *394denied the application for sale. It was stipulated in argument here that the sole question for decision was the validity of the deed as against the trustee’s lien.

The deed purporting to be made on February 14, 1921, is in the language of an ordinary…