Legal Opinion
Kolkman v. Manufacturers' Trust Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 3, 1927PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
HUTCHESON, District Judge.
This is an action by the trustee in bankruptcy to recover $5,000 paid to the defendant on December 10, 1924, five days before the filing of a petition in bankruptcy against the Kewa Novelty Co., Inc., a New York corporation. The payment was made by cheek signed by two officers of the bankrupt corporation, William Kunstler, president, and I. G. Altman, treasurer; these two officers being also indorsers on the paper.
The petition in bankruptcy was filed December 15, 1924. The trustee in the bill of complaint states two canses of action; the first predicated upon section…
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