Dennes

Robert A. Schieffer filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy on April 15, 1935, and on that day was adjudicated a bankrupt. The appellant was appointed trustee on April 30, 1935, and took possession of certain personal property which need not be described in detail. Thereafter appellee filed a petition alleging that certain personal property described in the petition had been taken into possession by the trustee in-bankruptcy, that he was the owner thereof and entitled to possession thereof, and praying that it be delivered to him. He alleged that a portion of said personal property described as a bean sprayer outfit had been sold by him under a lease contract to the bankrupt for the sum of $300; that it had been attached under a writ of attachment issued by the superior court in and for the county of Sonoma, but had been ordered returned to the petitioner by that court. Petitioner alleged that the other tools and implements described in the petition had been sold by him to the bankrupt under a lease contract, hereinafter referred to as Exhibit A, for the sum of $765, payable in two installments (one of $365 and one of $400), with interest at 7 per cent.; that the bankrupt had…