In re Russell

MORRIS, District Judge.

Upon a single involuntary petition filed against them, William Thomas Russell, John Davis Merrill, and Diamond State Products Company, a partnership of which they were the co-partners, were each and all adjudged bankrupt. For extraordinary reasons, deemed sufficient by the referee, one person was appointed trustee of the estate of Merrill, one of the estate of Russell, and a third of the partnership estate. To this no objection has been made by any one. By reason of a combination of peculiar circumstances, the partnership assets sold for more than enough to pay the…