Smedley v. Speckman
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
1Opinion of the Court
GRAY, Circuit Judge.
This was an action brought in the court below by the defendant in error and plaintiff below, trustee of the estate of George W. Pierson, bankrupt, to recover from the plaintiffs in error and defendants below the sum of $5,000, paid to them by the said bankrupt, on September 22, 1903, which payment the trustee alleged was made within four months of the filing of the petition in *816bankruptcy, when Pierson was insolvent and under such circumstances as to constitute a preference under section 60a of the bankruptcy law, as amended, and that the plaintiffs in error had knowledge,…
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