Key legal question
Whether the bankruptcy sales and prior creditor-consent findings could be reopened by the assignee.
Extracted holding
No. The assignee entered the proceedings at the stage reached by the assignor and was bound by final decisions and findings made earlier in the same bankruptcy.
Extracted reasoning
An assignee of a claim takes the proceedings as left by the assignor; prior definitive measures remain binding, and the switch from summary to ordinary liquidation had no retroactive effect.