Stark v. White

Bliss, J

— On February 11, 1931, J. A. Borchers filed his petition in the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of Iowa, asking that Roy L. White be adjudicated a bankrupt, because he had committed an act of bankruptcy by executing a chattel mortgage on November 10, 1930, thereby transferring, while insolvent, a portion of his property, consisting of a creamery equipment, at Indianola, Iowa, to John S. Hayes, a creditor of White, with intent to prefer said creditor over White’s other creditors. White first resisted the proceedings by filing an answer denying the…