In re Lucius

TOULMIN, District Judge.

The. real question in this case is not whether the bankrupt court has jurisdiction to pass on the validity of a lien on property exempt by law to the bankrupt, as contended by counsel for the bankrupt and the trustee, but is whether it has jurisdiction to determine the claim of the bankrupt to an exemption of certain money in the hands of the trustee collected by him as assets of the bankrupt estate, on which the petitioner alleges it has an equitable lien, and to which it is entitled. The bankrupt law allows to the bankrupt the exemption provided by the law of the…