Williamson v. Leith

BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a bankruptcy ease from an order of the District Judge reversing, on the petition of certain creditors for review, an order of the referee, and requiring the trustee to return to the assignee named in a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, executed by the bankrupts prior to their adjudication, all property which had been received from such assignee in the course of the bankruptcy proceedings, under the claim that it constituted assets of the-bankrupt estate.

Clark & Benson, as a partnership and as individuals, were adjudged bankrupts on…