Tuffy v. Nichols

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

Mrs. Sarah M. Nichols filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, December 18, 1912, and was duly adjudicated bankrupt. Within the next few months she removed to Bran-ford, Connecticut, where she died May 29, 1913, without ever having applied for a discharge. Owing to a supposed lack of assets, no trustee was appointed and the bankrupt estate was closed December 8, 1913.

Actually she had held, but had not listed, a remainder interest in the estate of Eli F. Rogers, who had died in Branford in…