Stearns Salt & Lumber Co. v. Hammond
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan; Clarence W. Sessions, Judge. Suit by William U. Hammond, as trustee in bankruptcy of the Handy Things Company, against the Stearns Salt & Dumber Company. Judgment for plaintiff, and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit by the trustee 'in bankruptcy of the Handy Things Company against the Stearns Salt & Dumber Company, under section 60b of the Bankruptcy Act (Comp. St. 1913, § 9644), to recover certain alleged preferential payments by the bankrupt. Plaintiff recovered verdict and judgment. The important facts are these:
On May 23, .1908, the Handy Things Company gave a trust mortgage for $35,000 upon its manufacturing plant and substantially all its property of every kind, to secure indebtedness to -the Stearns Salt & Dumber Company (hereafter called the Dumber Company)…
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