H. A. Phillips, Trustee v. Betty Vitemb and E. L. Hillman

JOHN R. BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The Trustee appeals from an adverse judgment of Referee and District Court denying the petition to turn over a certain piece of real property, comprising a rent-producing apartment house in Houston, Texas, on the grounds that it had been purchased by Betty, 1 after Mike’s bankruptcy, with money belonging to the Bankrupts’ estate, and the record title had been placed in the name of Hillman for the sole purpose of fraudulently concealing the existence of the property from Mike’s creditors.

The Trustee’s theory, specifically alleged in the petition, that funds were…