In re Currier

LOWELL, District Judge.

In this petition for adjudication against the -defendants, one act of bankruptcy alleged, and the only act relied on at the hearing, is a preference to T. Dana & Co., by a transfer to them, out of the ordinary course of the debtor’s business, of the whole proceeds of his stock in trade, tools, &c., which, to be sure, amounted, after providing for a valid mortgage, to less than three hundred dollars,, and which still left Dana & Co. large creditors of the defendant, for the balance of their running account. The questions for decision are, whether the transaction amounted…