Fenold v. Green

SWAN, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment for the plaintiff in an action brought by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover from the appellants preferential payments under section 60, sub. b, of the Bankruptcy Act, 11 U.S.C.A. § 96, sub. b. The case was tried to the court without a jury. The material facts as found by the trial judge are as follows :

The bankrupt, Samuel Kaufman, Inc., was a manufacturing furrier. The defendants Green, who will be referred to as Green & Co. were dealers in fur skins. In February 1945 Green & Co. sold skins to the bankrupt and received the bankrupt’s…