Coffin v. Day

This case now embodies live creditors’bills, or bills in the nature of creditors’ bills, filed by creditors of Day Bros. & Co., to set aside certain alleged unlawful preferential payments made by said firm. The first case was brought by Coffin et al. v. Day et al., by a bill filed in the circuit court of Peoria county, in June, 1885, and removed to this court, and was for the collection of judgments at law recovered by the complainants against Day Bros. & Co., between February 13,1885, and June 2, 1885. The second case was brought by Dornan et al. v. Day et al., in January, 1886, for the…