Autrey Bros. v. Chichester

LEMMON, Circuit Judge.

We have frequently adverted to the well-established principle that “courts of bankruptcy are essentially courts of equity.”

Judged in accordance with an equitable norm, the individual and corporate manipulations of the appellants herein with reference to the bankrupt’s property, are such as to offend the conscience of a discerning chancellor.

Within the spatial compass of a judicial opinion, it is impossible to trace the appellants’ machinations in detail. We will content ourselves herein in sketching merely the barest outline of the fraudulent scheme.

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