Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. v. Irving Trust Co.

SWAN,, Circuit Judge.

Upon its voluntary petition Marine Transit Corporation was adjudicated bankrupt March 21, 1934. Within six months thereafter Socony Vacuum Oil Company, the appellant, filed its proof of claim in the amount of $3,989.29 for fuel oils supplied to vessels of the bankrupt during the last three months of the year 1932. Although the supplies were furnished by a predecessor of the appellant, the legal situation is the same as though the appellant itself had supplied them, and we need not hereafter differentiate between the two. Concededly the circumstances were such as to create…