Lancaster v. Morristown Block & Concrete Products (In Re Compton)

CLIVE W. BARE, Bankruptcy Judge.

This is a preference action commenced by the trustee under § 547(b) 1 of the Bankruptcy Code to recover $2,000 from the defendant Morristown Block and Concrete Products Co.

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Prior to filing bankruptcy the debtor was a construction contractor. The testimony of the debtor and of the defendant’s president, Robert Ivens, was essentially identical regarding the course of business between the parties. From the time the debt- or first began purchasing concrete products from defendant (in 1980) until the time of the transactions in question the debtor-kept a “running…