In re Minkove
District Court, D. Alaska
in Bankruptcy. This is a contest between P. H. Fox, petitioning to be allowed a preference out of the proceeds of sale of the assets of' J. Minkove, bankrupt, and V. A. Paine, trustee of said bankrupt. The immediate question involved is whether or not the referee’s findings and order- of the referee should be sustained.
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in Bankruptcy. This is a contest between P. H. Fox, petitioning to be allowed a preference out of the proceeds of sale of the assets of' J. Minkove, bankrupt, and V. A. Paine, trustee of said bankrupt. The immediate question involved is whether or not the referee’s findings and order- of the referee should be sustained. On June 13, 1913, Joe Minkove, a plumber and dealer in hardware at Douglas, Alaska, made, executed, and delivered to P. H. Fox his certain chattel mortgage of and upon a stock of hardware, plumbing goods, and fixtures as security for the payment on June 13, 1914, of $2,300 and…
1Opinion of the Court
JENNINGS, District Judge.
The matter has been briefed with a great deal of painstaking and diligent research by the counsel on both -sides; thus very materially lightening the labor of the court. Eet us consider the complaint of Paine, *72trustee, that the referee erred in finding No. 3 and in his conclusion therefrom.
This finding is to the effect that (a) “at the time of giving said [third] mortgage it was impliedly understood and agreed between the bankrupt and petitioner that the bankrupt should account to the petitioner for the money received from the sale of the mortgaged goods, and that he…
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