SAWYER ET AL. v. TURPIN ET AL.


91 U.S. 114 (____)

SAWYER ET AL. v. TURPIN ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Benjamin Dean and Mr. J.G. Abbott for the appellants.

Mr. Joshua D. Ball for the appellees.


MR. JUSTICE STRONG delivered the opinion of the court.

The only question presented by this appeal is, whether the mortgage given by the bankrupt on the thirty-first day of July, 1869, to Edward Turpin, the agent of Novelli & Co., was a fraudulent preference of creditors within the prohibition of the Bankrupt Act, and therefore void as against the assignees in bankruptcy. That it was a security given for the protection...

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