Brigman v. Covington
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of North Carolina, at Raleigh, in Bankruptcy; H. G. Con-nor, Judge. Suit by Eeake S. Covington, trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of E. E. Brigman and B. T. Dawson, copartners, trading as Eagle Pharmacy, bankrupt, against J. W. Brigman. From a decree for the plaintiff in the District Court (210 Fed. 499), the defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPP, Circuit Judge.
The material facts appear to be these: On January 16, 1911, the- above-named appellant (defendant below and hereinafter so called) sold to his son, E. E. Brigman, and one B. T. Dawson, a clerk in his employ, the drug business which he was then conducting at Rockingham, N. C., under the name of the Eagle Pharmacy. The price agreed to be paid for the stock of goods, etc., was $3,500, and the purchasers also assumed an outstanding indebtedness of about $2,700. They were without means of their own and gave notes for the entire amount which were secured by a chattel mortgage…
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