Chrystler v. South Bend Supply Co. (In Re Skilled Trades Co.)

OPINION

DAVID E. NIMS, Jr., Bankruptcy Judge.

PREFERENTIAL TRANSFER — BUILDERS TRUST FUND — ANTECEDENT INDEBTEDNESS

Joseph A. Chrystler, the duly appointed, qualified, and acting trustee in bankruptcy, filed a complaint for the recovery of alleged preferential transfers of $7,466.13. No objection to the summary jurisdiction of the court was raised.

There is no dispute that the transfers in question were within the four month period immediately preceding the filing of a voluntary petition. However, as to one of the transfers, the defendant denies that the transfer was of property of the debtor,…