Guaranty Title & Trust Co. v. Pearlman

ARCHBALD, District Judge.†

This is a bill to set aside as fraudulent a sale of merchandise, in bulk and out of the ordinary course of business, made to the defendant in June last. On or about March 1, 1905, the bankrupts, M. Burke & Co., leased a store in Pittsburgh for the ostensible purpose of carrying on a furniture and household furnishing business; and representing that they had this in view, and having made a show of means, by opening an account in bank and depositing some $7,390 in cash and notes, they placed a large num-*551her of orders, with various jobbing houses in different parts of…