Rock Island Plow Co. v. Reardon
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Whether the Plow Company or Reardon, as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Frank Brown, has the better right to certain personal property delivered by Brown to the Plow Company is the question to be decided on this record. ' The facts pertinent to the controversy are these: Brown was a merchant and engaged in business at Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT. Whether the Plow Company or Reardon, as trustee of the bankrupt estate of Frank Brown, has the better right to certain personal property delivered by Brown to the Plow Company is the question to be decided on this record. ' The facts pertinent to the controversy are these: Brown was a merchant and engaged in business at Pekin, Tazewell County, Illinois. On November 13, 1907, he confessed jildgment for $247.15 and $400 and costs in favor of a creditor, the Peoria Cordage Company, a corporation, and on the same day an execution…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice White
The only question arising for. decision is whether the facts set up in the plea of the Plow Company are sufficient to exempt that company from accountability to the trustee for receiving a preference within the terms of the Bankruptcy Act. The consideration which this question received in the opinion delivered by the Circuit Court of Appeals makes unnecessary any elaborate review of the subject.
We assume, for the sake of argument, as did the Circuit Court of Appeals, that the contracts by virtue of which the Plow Company claimed it re-took possession of the property in question were…
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