Hummel v. Cardwell

The appellant, Fred E. Hummel, is the trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Dorothea W. Huszagh, who is a beneficiary under a trust, created by the last will of her father, Frederick H. Wickett, deceased. Dorothea W. Huszagh filed her petition to be adjudged a bankrupt on August 17, 1940. In her bankruptcy schedules she stated that under a creditor’s bill proceeding, in the circuit court of Lake county, her interest and estate in the trust had been sold by the master in chancery under a decree of sale entered on November 17, 1939, to her judgment creditor, James B. Cardwell.

Hummel was…