Supreme Court of Pennsylvania January 24, 1870 (Mays v. Manufacturers' National Bank)

The opinion of the court was delivered,

by Sharswood, J.

— The counsel for the parties, with all their learning and research, have not been able to produce any decision upon the question, whether where the debtor of a bankrupt, in good faith and without knowledge or notice of the proceedings against him, pays him a debt, he can be compelled to pay it over *76again to the assignee ?