Bardes v. Hawarden First National Bank

This is a certificate from the District Court of the United States for the Northern District of Iowa. It appears therefrom that a bill of complaint was filed in that court sitting in bankruptcy by Bardes, trustee of the estate of Walker, who had been therein adjudged a bankrupt on his own petition, seeking to set aside the transfer of a stock of goods by the bankrupt, and to compel defendants to account for the goods or their proceeds, because the transfer was in fraud of the provisions of the bankruptcy act, and of the creditr ors of the bank; that defendants interposed a demurrer to the…