Van Allen v. Dorough

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants are minor heirs of their father, B. W. Van Allen, deceased. They filed their petition to require the trustee of their mother’s bankrupt estate to account to them for the full amount of $7,704.10, the value of their one-third interest in a stock of goods which they inherited from their father.

The facts are not in dispute: B. W. Van Allen died intestate in 1917, and left surviving him his widow, the appellants, and an adult daughter by a former marriage. At the time of his death, Van Allen was engaged in the mercantile business, and was possessed of a stock of…