In re Andrews

BO WEBB, District Judge.

A creditor requested the trustees of the bankrupt estate to examine the bankrupt’s former common-law assignee regarding'his management and disposition of the bankrupt’s property while in his hands. The trustees refused to take action as requested, whereupon the creditor applied for a summons to the assignee, proposing himself to conduct the examination. After a hearing, the referee refused to issue the summons, and the creditor has appealed to me. It may be taken that both the trustees and the referee believed that an examination was neither necessary nor desirable in…