Legal Opinion

In re Levinson

District Court, W.D. Washington

Decided December 15, 1923No. 6268Published

1Opinion of the CourtNeterer, District Judge

(after stating the facts as above). The Supreme Court, by its judgment in Greene, Trustee, v. Levinson, 123 Wash. 370, 212 Pac. 569, holds that the leasehold interest was the community property of the bankrupt and his wife, carried in the name of the Manhattan Investment Company, and that the trustee in bankruptcy was vested therewith. I think it is primer law that a leasehold of a bankrupt passes to the trustee by operation of law. Gazlay v. Williams, 210 U. S. 41, 28 Sup. Ct. 687, 52 L. Ed. 950; Prudential Lithograph Co. (D. C.) 265 Fed. 869, affirmed (C. C. A.) 270 Fed. 469, 45 Am. Bankr.…

2Cases cited13 opinions

  1. Riggs v. . PursellNew York Court of Appeals · 1876
  2. Gazlay v. WilliamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
  3. Farnum v. HefnerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1889
  4. Camp v. ScottSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1879
  5. Bemis v. WilderMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1868

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