Legal Opinion

In re Atkins

District Court, W.D. Kentucky

Decided July 15, 1915Published

In Bankruptcy. In the matter of Thomas J. Atkins, bankrupt. There was an order of the referee making allowances to attorneys, and the First National Bank petitions for a review.

1Opinion of the Court

EVANS, District Judge.

It would be somewhat difficult to state with accuracy and at the same time with brevity what might be a satisfactory history of the litigation in this case, but for present purposes it will suffice to say that in August, 1908, the. Globe Bank & Trust Company, then a creditor of the bankrupt, brought this suit in equity in the McCracken circuit court to set aside as voluntary and fraudulent a deed the bankrupt had a short time previously made to his son and the son’s children, whereby he conveyed to them practically all of his property. In that suit the plaintiff sued out…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Trustees v. GreenoughSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
  2. Harrison v. PereaSupreme Court of the United States · 1897
  3. Fowler v. Equitable Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891
  4. Martin v. Globe Bank & Trust Co. of PaducahCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1912
  5. Fowler v. Equitable Trust Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1891

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