that since that date petitioner had been in possession of same as trustee in bankruptcy, and had been operating these stores in that capacity, until the possession of the property in the West Virginia stores was seized by the receivers of the circuit court of Marion county on March 23d. The petition recited that petitioner was appearing specially for the sole purpose of asking a return of the property which had been taken from its possession, asked that a hearing be had upon the matters alleged in its petition and that the receivers be required to restore the property which had been seized from it, and that so much of the order of the court be set aside as appointed receivers and directed them to take possession ofthe trustee in bankruptcy the property in controversy which had been seized by them. This petition set forth the proceedings had in the Southern District of New York and the proceedings up to that time in the courts of West Virginia. It averred that the property in controversy was in fact the property of the bankrupt parent corporation prior to the adjudication of bankruptcy; that since adjudication *426 the title thereto had been in the trustee; and that the trustee had had possession thereof until March 23, 1933, when same had been seized and taken from its possession by the receivers of the state court. It further averred that the application to the state court for the return of the property had been made as a mere matter