Blair v. Anderson

Swain Pearson was a manufacturer of carriages, wagons, and other articles at Salina. On the sixth of April, 1898, he executed a deed of assignment for the benefit of his creditors, to E. E. Swan*98son, who took immediate possession of the assigned property. On the next day, the Paddock & Hawley Iron Company commenced an action in the District Court against Pearson, and caused an attachment to be issued and levied on a portion of the property in the possession of the assignee. Subsequently, Swanson and Pearson filed separate motions to discharge the attachment; Swanson claiming the goods by…