Coleman v. Decatur Egg Case Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Southeastern Division of the District of Missouri. Action by Prank B. Coleman, trustee of the estate of the Ií. N. Saylor Cooperage Company, bankrupt, against the Decatur Egg Case Company. There was a judgment for defendant, and plaintiff brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover a preference claimed to have been given to a creditor of the bankrupt within four months next preceding the filing of the petition for an adjudication against it. The preference is said to have consisted in the transfer to the defendant, the Egg Case Company, of a lot of staves and other cooperage material taken out of the stock in trade of the bankrupt in partial settlement of an indebtedness due the defendant. The cause was tried to a jury, and at the close of all the evidence a verdict was directed in favor of the…
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