Eaton v. Standard Oil Co. of New York

The plaintiff, as trustee of the bankrupt estate of one Charles F. Cleary, who had on December 31st, 1920, filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy and was adjudicated a bankrupt, brings this action under subdivisions (a) and (b) of § 60 of the Bankrupt Law of 1898 (30 U. S. Stat. at Large, 562) as amended by the Act of 1903 (32 U. S. Stat. at Large, 799) and further amended by the Act of June 25th, 1910 (36 U. S. Stat. at Large, 842), appealing in U. S. Compiled Statutes, 1918, § 9644, to recover the amount of approximately $600 claimed to have been transferred and paid over by the said…