Lynch v. Speed

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

In this ease it appears that’ Virgil M. Lynch was adjudicated a bankrupt and a trustee was appointed. The trustee discovered a safety deposit box in the Ouachita National Bank, at Monroe, La., in the name of his wife, appellant herein, and took steps to reduce its contents to possession as an asset of the estate. In the box were a number of bonds, which it is unnecessary to enumerate, and $4,010 in money. Appellant filed a petition in the bankruptcy proceedings, and claimed the contents of thfe box as her separate and paraphernal property. The trustee, appellee herein,…