CITY OF LONG BEACH v. METCALF

No. 8966.

103 F.2d 483 (1939)

CITY OF LONG BEACH et al. v. METCALF. In re F. P. NEWPORT CORPORATION, Limited.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

April 14, 1939.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geo. W. Trammell, Jr., City Atty., Harlan V. Boyer, Asst. City Atty., Henry D. Lawrence and John T. McCarthy, Deputy City Attys., and Swaffield & Swaffield and Kenneth Sperry, all of Long Beach, Cal., for appellants.

Bailie, Turner & Lake, Richard A. Turner, Norman A. Bailie, and Allen T. Lynch, all of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellee.

Before DENMAN, MATHEWS, and HEALY, Circuit Judges.


MATHEWS, Circuit Judge.

This appeal is from an order affirming an order of a referee in bankruptcy in a summary proceeding by appellee, H. F. Metcalf, as trustee in bankruptcy of F. P. Newport Corporation, Limited, against appellants — the City of Long Beach and the members of its Board of Harbor Commissioners1 — and the State of California and two of its officers.2 The question is whether the...

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