In re Reading Engineering, Inc.

MANTON, Circuit Judge.

The Reading Engineering Company was adjudicated a bankrupt on November 21,1923. At this time,, the appellant, Hoisting Company, was its landlord, owning a property in New Jersey whereon the bankrupt had placed some old machinery. On October 21, 1927, the trustee petitioned, in a summary proceeding, for an order directing the Hoisting Company and John C. Houston to turn over the proceeds of the sale of this machinery to him. For ten months after the bankruptcy the-machinery remained on the property of the appellant, and distraint proceedings were-commenced for the…