Half Moon Fruit & Produce Co. v. Floyd

WILBUR, Circuit Judge.

Appellant filed a claim for $51,101.53 in the matter of the bankruptcy of E. C. Bau-man. The trustee in bankruptcy objected to the allowance of the claim unless and until the claimant should relinquish an alleged preference of $10,551.45 which it had received by the sale of 75 ears of melons belonging to tho bankrupt and consigned to the appellant for sale. Tho referee sustained the trustee’s objections and upon appeal from this determination the trial court sustained the referee. From this decision claimant takes this appeal.

The principal point presented by the record…