Hillegass v. F. v. Warren & Co.

Per Curiam,

Mehl & Latta, a corporation engaged in the retail lumber and building supplies business, appeals from a decree of the Court of Common Pleas No. 1 of Philadelphia County, declaring an assignment, made to it by W. Palmer Young less than four months before his adjudication as a bankrupt, to be a preference and setting it aside as void under the provisions of section 60 of the Bankruptcy Act. Plaintiff is a trustee of the estate of the bankrupt, Young, who was a contractor and builder in Bryn Mawr, Montgomery County. The assignment in question, made November 23, 1931, was of moneys due…