Martin

John H. Martin, as trustee in bankruptcy of the Imperial Copper Company, a corporation, bankrupt, asks review of an order of the District Court for the District of Arizona made in the matter of the Southern Arizona Smelting Company, a corporation, bankrupt.

The Imperial Copper Company was adjudged a bankrupt upon an involuntary petition on July 25, 1911. Upon August 21, 1911, M. P. Freeman was elected trjistee in bankruptcy of the Imperial Copper Company; but about July 2, 1914, he resigned, and Martin, the petitioner herein, was elected to succeed him. When the Imperial Copper Company was adjudged a bankrupt, it was a creditor of the Southern Arizona Smelting Company in the sum of $28,887.71. On January 23,1912, Freeman, as trustee of the copper company, brought action in the territorial court in Arizona against the Southern Arizona Smelting Company to recover upon this debt. About June 17, 1914, upon application of certain creditors of the copper company, the District Court directed that the trustee should cause an attachment to-issue in the action then pending before it, and that a levy should be made upon the property of the smelting company. Thereafter, on-September 29,…