Platt v. Ives
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action by a trustee in bankruptcy to recover the value of property which was alleged to have been transferred to and received by the defendant, a creditor, in violation of the provisions of the Bankrupt Act prohibiting preferences, brought to and tried by the Superior ■ Court in Litchfield County, Case, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiff for $7,083, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtBeach, J.
The Frank E. Rowe Company, a corporation located in New Milford, was adjudicated bankrupt December 6th, 1906, upon a petition of creditors filed July 26th, 1906.
The defendant, Lucy S. Ives, who died after judgment and after notice of this appeal had been filed, was the mother of one Henry C. Ives, the secretary and treasurer of the bankrupt corporation; and in June, 1906, she was an indorser for accommodation on notes of said corporation, discounted at the First National Bank of New Milford, in the amount of $7,500. Between June, 1906, and the date of the adjudication in bankruptcy, there was…
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