Harris v. Second National Bank

Harris, as trustee in bankruptcy of Rosa D. Prewitt, exhibited this bill against the Second National Bank of *242Jackson, to recover the sum of $3,100 alleged to have been paid said bank by Mrs. Prewitt in discharge of a pre-existing debt, averring that said payment was an unlawful preference within the meaning of the bankrupt act. The chancellor pronounced a decree in favor of the complainant. Defendant appealed, and has assigned errors.

It. appears from the record that prior to the 18th of September, 1900, Mrs. Rosa D. Prewitt had been conducting a dry goods business in the city of Jackson,…