Nisbit v. Macon Bank & Trust Co.

For several years prior to June 6, 1878, R. W. Cubbedge, William Hazlehurst, and J. W. Lockett, under the firm name of Cubbedge, Hazlehurst & Co., were engaged in the city of Macon in carrying on a general banking and brokerage business. On the said sixth day of June, 1878, the said firm failed in business and made a general assignment of their assets then on hand to W. W. *687Carnes for the benefit of their creditors. On or about the twenty-fifth of August, 1878, the members of said firm were on their own petition adjudicated bankrupts, and thereupon the complainant was appointed as assignee of…