First State Bank of Corwith v. Haswell
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa. In the matter- of John H. Standring, bankrupt. A decree of adjudication was entered in involuntary proceedings, from which the First State Bank of Corwith, Iowa, by W. C. Oelke, its receiver, appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order of the District Court adjudicating John H. Standring an involuntary bankrupt. It is prosecuted by the receiver of the First State Bank of Cor-with, which was charged in the petition filed March 19, .1908, with having received an unlawful preference by the conveyance to it of a *210certain tract of land within four months 'before the filing of the petition. The giving of that preference was the act of bankruptcy counted on in the petition.
The petition was filed by one creditor, who alleged that the debtor had less than twelve creditors known to…
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