New York Court of Appeals
In the Matter of the Petition of E. H. & D. M. Cavin, Respondents v. John B. Gleason, as General Assignee
April 19, 1887105 N.Y. 256
Summary
The Court held that a trust creditor cannot obtain a preferential payment over general creditors in a bankruptcy accounting merely because the claim is a trust claim, and that the petitioners could not trace the trust fund into the assignee's hands, limiting their recovery to $30.