McDONNELL v. BUCKS COUNTY FARMS, INC.

No. 14671.

334 F.2d 763 (1964)

C. E. H. McDONNELL, Successor Trustee to Murray Ferguson, Trustee Under Chapter X Reorganization Proceeding for Equitable Plan Company, Debtor, v. BUCKS COUNTY FARMS, INC. (United States of America, intervenor in D. C.) Merrie V. Birrell, Claimant, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 16, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen I. Weiss, Cameron, Bell & Weiss, Trevose, Pa., for appellant.

James B. Doak, Philadelphia, Pa. (LaBrum & Doak, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before BIGGS, Chief Judge, and HASTIE and SMITH, Circuit Judges.


BIGGS, Chief Judge.

The case at bar is complicated in its facts. It appears that in 1946, Lowell Birrell purchased, with his own money, eleven pieces of real estate in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, title to which was taken by him and by his wife Merrie Birrell, the claimant-appellant, as tenants by the entireties. It does not appear that Mrs. Birrell contributed any of her own assets to the purchase of any of these lands. Two portions of the lands

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