Root v. Potter

This proceeding in equity was brought by several creditors of the firm of Potter, Beattie & Co., composed of John A. Potter, Adam Beattie, and Evan M. Potter, formerly doing several kinds of business, chiefly in Ovid, but also in Hasty and Ashley station, in Gratiot connty. On the seventeenth of July, 1884, this firm made a general assignment, in favor of creditors, to Charles M. Hagadorn. This bill is filed, in furtherance of the assignment, to subject to its operation a considerable amount of assets, in personalty, realty, and claims discharged, of certain securities executed to John Sowers…