In re Hartman
District Court, N.D. New York
In the matter of Ernest H. Hartman, bankrupt. Review of the action of the referee in refusing to direct the trustee to turn over certain property to the holder of a chattel mortgage thereon, the trustee claiming such mortgage was void, and also in refusing to allow proof of claim as a secured debt.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
February 17, 1909, Ernest H. Hartman, the above-named bankrupt, was indebted to his father-in-law, William Kepler, in the sum of $500 for money loaned about February 2, 1907, and Kepler had also indorsed his notes amounting to the sum of $1,-855 at that time, which were held or had been discounted by the First National Bank of the Thousand Islands. On that day, February 17, 1909, the said Hartman gave to the said Kepler a chattel mortgage covering his tools, implements, merchandise, furniture, and personal *198property of every kind which was more particularly described in his…
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