HAND, Circuit Judge (after stating the facts as above).
The receivers' theory, as we understand it, runs as follows: The certificates of overassessment, when issued by the Treasury officials and delivered to the Comptroller General, became property of the defendant, to which there was no adverse claim. The District Court, which by its receivers had assumed custody of all the defendant's assets, had jurisdiction to compel the surrender of such property by summary petition...
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