People's Nat. Bank v. Green

ROSE, Circuit Judge.

The People’s National Bank of Strasburg, Va.,-hereinafter for-brevity called the bank, has brought to this court, the dispute here involved by petition to superintend and revise and also by appeal. The questions at issue are, first, whether the court of bankruptcy, under the circumstances shown in the record, had jurisdiction in a summary proceeding to set aside as preferential a deed of a farm made by' the bankrupt to the bank within four months of the filing of the petition in bankruptcy, qnd, second, if it had, whether upon the evidence it was justified in doing so. The…