Freedman v. Sanderson

BREWSTER, District Judge.

This is a petition for a writ of prohibition to restrain the United States commissioner from proceeding further with certain poor debtor process against Abraham Freedman and Ben*276jamin Freedman. The essential fac ts upon which the matter was presented, are not in dispute and are as follows:

James T. Fitzgerald, as trustee in bankruptcy of the Lynway Shoe Company, brought two bills in equity in this court to recover alleged preferences, consisting of payments of money which were claimed to be voidable under the Bankruptcy Act. In both of these suits the plaintiff…