Jackson v. Steele

HARVEY, Presiding Judge.

This suit was brought by the plaintiff in error, J. L. Jackson, Jr., trustee in bankruptcy, to recover of Oliver O. Steele, doing business under the name of Oliver C. Steele Manufacturing Company, the amount of an alleged preferential payment, in the sum of $4,509, made to Steele by the bankrupt corporation, the Wichita School Supply Company. At the trial of the case, the court peremptorily instructed a verdict against the trustee, and judgment was entered accordingly. The Court of Civil Appeals affirmed that judgment [37 S.W.(2d) 762], and the trustee sought and was…