American National Bank of Dallas v. Dallas Tinware Manufacturing Co.

FLY, Associate Justice.

On September 14, 1894, appellant sued the Dallas Tinware Manufacturing Company, a private corporation, on two promissory notes, for the aggregate sum of $2566.84, and simultaneously applied for and obtained an attachment, which was levied upon the property of said company. J. B. Adoue intervened in the suit, alleging that the company had made a general assignment of all its assets.

The Dallas Tinware Manufacturing Company answered that at the time the attachment was levied said company was hopelessly insolvent, and was in the act of making a general assignment for the…