In re Kaufman

EVANS, District Judge.

The referee presided at the first meeting of creditors. A great many claims had been proved against the bankrupt and allowed by the referee. Certain creditors, who composed what we shall call the “minority creditors,” were represented by attorneys who cast all their votes for a person for trustee whom they had put in nomination for that position. Certain other creditors, whom we shall call the “majority creditors,” were represented by an attorney who was or had been attorney for the bankrupt in this involuntary proceeding, and who had filed the consent of the bankrupt to…