Fruit Distributing Co. v. Shows

Roger B. Shows, as Trustee in Bankruptcy for Clifford H. Anderson and Thomas H. Webb, doing business as Thrifty Food Stores, brought this suit against appellant to recover for an alleged voidable preference consisting of money paid by the bankrupt partnership firm to appellant within four months preceding the institution of involuntary bankruptcy proceedings against them on May 22, 1951. The preference consisted of the collection by appellant in February and March, 1951, of checks of the bankrupt which had been previously given to appellant for credit on the account which the bankrupt owed…