Plume & Atwood Manufacturing Co. v. Caldwell

This is a contest between creditors of George Bohner & Co., an insolvent corporation of the city of Chicago, of which the appellee, Caldwell, was appointed assignee. The voluntary assignment of the corporation was consummated by the delivery of the deed of assignment, and placing the same of record, after the levy of an execution in favor of the Commercial National Bank, and of three writs of attachment in favor of the appellants, creditors, severally. When the assignee sought to reduce the assigned property to possession, he found the sheriff in custody under said execution and writs of…