The subject of this suit was the Columbus Hotel properties located at Miami, Florida. Its object was to retrieve, by equitable proceedings, certain advantages for the benefit of holders of bonds on same that had been sold through G. L. Miller & Company, Inc., a bankrupt corporation. The advantages in controversy were alleged by complainants, suing as protective committee, to have been fraudulently obtained from them by means of covin, fraud and misrepresentation on the part of one S. A. Lynch, in his dealings with the parties in interest. Complainants lost in the court below. They have brought their cause here on appeal from the final decree dismissing their suit on its merits at the final hearing had on complainant's bill of complaint answer and testimony.