Oxford Iron Co. v. Slafter
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
[This was an action by the Oxford Iron Company against Edwin P. Slafter, assignee in bankruptcy of Foot, Doud & Co.)
1Opinion of the Court
JOHNSON, Circuit Judge.
This cause was tried before me, without a jury. That the original debt was an honest debt is not disputed, and is, besides, entirely plain, upon the proof. The assignee resists the claim of the plaintiffs upon the alleged ground that the transfer by Foot, Doud & Co. to the plaintiffs, on the 29th of December, 1871, of a quantity of nails, was preferential in its character, in violation of the provisions of the bankrupt act, and that, consequently, the plaintiffs’ debt became incapable of proof.'
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ely and Others v. . HoltonNew York Court of Appeals · 1857
3Cited by2 opinions
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