Clyde Stone and Wife, Ruby Stone, and John Ed Stone and Wife, Mary Stone, Interested Parties v. Joe D. Huffstutler, Referee in Bankruptcy

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

This appeal is the second step in the attempt of appellants, as the taxpayers against whom the taxes were originally assessed, to review the order of the referee in Cause No. 3741, denying the claim of the United States against J. E. Stone Lumber .Co., Inc., the bankrupt, based on the contention that the corporation had assumed, and was liable onsits assumption for, income taxes assessed against Clyde Stone and J. E. Stone and their wives for the years 1947, 1949 and 1950.

The first step, a petition for review, 1 was filed by the Stones claiming to be “parties in…