Whitney v. Wenman
District Court, S.D. New York
In Bankruptcy. Suit by a trustee in bankruptcy to follow goods and moneys alleged to have been improperly turned over by the receivers of the same bankrupt estate, before the appointment of the trustee, to the defendants. See Whitney v. Wenman, 198 U. S. 539, 25 Sup. Ct. 778, 49 L. Ed. 1157.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLT, District Judge.
The second plea of the Security Warehousing Company and the third plea of the defendants Wenman, Fish, and Boldt, although worded differently, are substantially identical. They allege as a bar to the maintenance of the action that the receivers of Dresser & Co. filed accounts, in which they credited themselves with the transfers of property and money to the defendants which this suit is brought to recover; that objections were filed to such credits by the trustee, and the objections litigated before the referee; *960and that afterwards an order was entered, by consent of the…
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