Crawford v. Nolan

Soper, Crawford & Carr is a partnership engaged in tbe practice of law, and tbe plaintiff is a member of that firm, who received for collection, through attorneys in Milwaukee and Chicago, certain claims against L. J. Baldwin in favor of D. B. Fiske & Co. and the Cream City Cloak Company. To secure said claims Baldwin executed'to the plaintiff, as trustee, a chattel mortgage on a stock of merchandise. Baldwin was indebted to Lederer, Strauss & Co., who, after the execution of the mortgage, attached the merchandise, and this action is brought against the sheriff and Lederer, Strauss & Co. to…