In Re Podolsky

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

C. I. T. Corporation, Homestead Fire Insurance Company, and Harold W. Goldstein, trading as Anchor Lite Appliance Company, hereinafter referred to as* claimants, filed petitions for an order on the trustee of the bankrupt’s estate to pay to them various amounts alleged to have been collected by the trustee under fire insurance policies by reason of the destruction of merchandise owned by them and in the possession of the bankrupt when the fire loss occurred. The petitions were dismissed by the referee and the claims disallowed. The District Court of the United States…