In re Safris

HARTSHORNE, District Judge.

Morris Safris disappeared from his hotel at Miami Beach October 29, 1952, while visiting there. Two months thereafter his wife and daughter filed a complaint in the New Jersey Superior Court, Chancery Division, Essex County, asking for the appointment of a “statutory receiver * * to conserve the assets” of his estate. That court thereupon appointed the wife “trustee for the purposes of filing a petition for arrangement under Chapter XI of the Bankruptcy Act in the United States District Court of the District of New Jersey.” Such a. petition was then filed by the…