In Re Woodworth

85 F.2d 50 (1936)

In re WOODWORTH.

No. 434.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

July 6, 1936.

Thomas F. Kane, of New York City, for trustee-appellant.

Harold Y. MacCartney, of Nyack, N. Y., for appellee Nyack Nat. Bank & Trust Co.

Before MANTON, SWAN, and CHASE, Circuit Judges.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

Leon M. Woodworth, the bankrupt, was an attorney. He had been retained by the appellee to sue for certain tax refunds, and had agreed to do so on a contingent basis of one-third of any recovery. He commenced a suit in the New York State Supreme Court, and, after the case had been placed on the…