In Re Sherman

The proceeding below was a reclamation, brought by respondents to recover certain goods by them delivered to the bankrupt shortly before petition filed.

The petition was what is ordinarily called a reclamation, and that in most cases is in legal effect an endeavor to rescind a contract, which is usually a contract of sale.

The court below granted the reclamation; i. e., directed the return to the petitioner respondent of certain goods which had been found by the trustee on the bankrupt’s premises. Whereupon the trustee took this appeal.

We do not think it necessary to recite the testimony at…