Dorothy Willard v. Julius G. Petruska, Trustee in Bankruptcy for Burnette MacHinery Inc., Bankrupt

The matter under consideration is the mandate of this Court which directed the trustee herein to pay the lien of the prior successful appellant, Dorothy Willard, out of the proceeds of the sale of assets of the bankrupt. Willard v. Petruska, 356 F.2d 422 (5 Cir., 1966).

The Referee in Bankruptcy, upon remand of the matter to him by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida, considered the question of whether the appellant’s lien, which this Court had previously determined would be valid, encumbered all the assets of the bankrupt and attached to all the funds in the…