Myer v. Fales' Sons & Co.

The facts in this case as agreed to on the trial of the cause in the circuit court are substantially as follows:

On the 25th of Eovember, 1881, appellees obtained a judgment before a justice of the peace against William Lee & Sons for $177.85. On the 14th day of December, 1881, the said William Lee & Sons being in failing circumstances made a voluntary assignment of their stock in trade to appellant.

The assignment was duly signed, acknowledged and then and there delivered to appellant; that appellant at the hour of eleven o’clock a. m. of the 16th day of December, 1881, filed the said…