Legal Opinion

In re Holland

District Court, E.D. Michigan

Decided April 15, 1873PublishedCited by 2 opinions

[In bankruptcy. In the matter of D. G. Holland.] On an issue certified by the register, Benjamin J. Brown, Esq., formed under general order 34, upon thfe application of the assignee to expunge the claims of William Final, a creditor of said estate, on the ground of a fraudulent preference.

1Opinion of the Court

LONGYEAR, District Judge.

Final was endorser for the bankrupt upon four promissory notes, as follows: One for three thousand dollars, dated February 22d, 1869; one for one thousand dollars, dated February 28th, 1869; one for two thousand dollars, dated March 25th, 1869, and one for the thousand dollars, dated February 2d, 1869. Within four months before the commencement of proceedings in bankruptcy, the bankrupt transferred to Final a quantity of pine lands, and a note against one Alexander English, for one thousand dollars, out of which Final was to indemnify himself, and under circumstances…

2Cited by2 opinions

  1. In re Charles B.District Court, W.D. Pennsylvania · 1882
  2. In re AspinwallDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1882

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