Brigham v. Claflin
Wisconsin Supreme Court
APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was brought by the assignee of a bankrupt, to recover the value of a stock of goods alleged to have been transferred by the bankrupt to the defendants, in fraud of the provisions of the bankrupt law, less than four months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, in contemplation of insolvency, and for the purpose of giving a preference to the defendants as creditors, and with knowledge of the facts on…
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APPEAL from tbe Circuit Court for Milwaukee County. This action was brought by the assignee of a bankrupt, to recover the value of a stock of goods alleged to have been transferred by the bankrupt to the defendants, in fraud of the provisions of the bankrupt law, less than four months before the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, in contemplation of insolvency, and for the purpose of giving a preference to the defendants as creditors, and with knowledge of the facts on their part, and not in the ordinary course of business of the debtor. The complaint was demurred to, on the grounds, 1.…
1Opinion of the CourtCole, J.
The questions raised upon the record are highly interesting and important, and have not, so far as we know,' ever been passed upon by the supreme court of the United States. We have, therefore, given them all the consideration which our limited time and duty to other causes enabled us to bestow upon them ; and I am now to announce the conclusions at which we have arrived upon the questions presented for our decision.
In support of the demurrer the counsel for the defendants insist, that the jurisdiction conferred by the bankrupt law upon the several district and circuit courts of the United…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Stevens v. Mechanics' Savings BankMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1869
- Boone v. HallCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1869
- McLean v. Lafayette BankU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Ohio · 1843
- Squires v. MalloryNew York Supreme Court · 1819
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