Troy Wagon Works v. Vastbinder

ARCHBALD, District Judge.

These are involuntary proceedings begun by creditors, the only act of bankruptcy sufficiently charged being that the respondent, within four months next preceding the filing of the petition, transferred, while insolvent, good and collectible promissory notes, to the value of $500, to Charles H. Childs & Co., with intent to prefer them above his other creditors. The respondent contests the proceedings, and denies that he made any such transfer of notes “then held and owned by him” — an argumentative denial, as will appear by the sequel — or that he transferred any such…