Opinion
No. 5320.
July 13, 1934.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; William H. Kirkpatrick, Judge.
Affirming 7 F. Supp. 691.
Edward Stone, Philip Werner Amran, and Aarons, Weinstein, Stone Goldhaber, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
Joseph A. Keough and Levi Mandel, all of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellees.
Before BUFFINGTON, WOOLLEY, and DAVIS, Circuit Judges.
In this bankruptcy case, which concerned the administration of a large quantity of unfinished clothing, the present trustee sought to surcharge the former trustee with some $14,000 for his fraudulently doing what he ought not to have done, and with some $11,000 additional, for his failure to do what it is alleged he ought to have done and whereby, it is alleged, he would have bettered the estate to that extent. This latter surcharge the court below refused to make, and from its decree so ordering the trustee appealed.
No question of law is involved in the case, but rather the business and administrative one arising in handling the situation. The opinion of the court below is so thorough and comprehensive, covering as it does every phase of the administration of the estate, that an additional opinion by this court would be a studied effort to use different language and avoid duplication of what has been already adequately discussed by the judge below. As we find ourselves in accord with his statement and conclusion, we limit ourselves to affirming the decree below on his opinion.