In re Southern Fruit & Produce Co.

CALL, District Judge.

This cause comes on for a hearing upon the motion of the petitioning creditors for the adjudication of the bankrupt on the petition and the bankrupt’s answer.

*677There are three aets of bankruptcy charged. The first is that the bankrupt, with intent to hinder, delay, and defraud its creditors, executed and delivered to one of its creditors, to secure a pre-existing debt, a chattel mortgage covering its stock of goods and all other property, real, personal, and mixed, owned by it; that said mortgage contained the provision authorizing the said bankrupt to sell and dispose of…