Bacon & Co. v. Moody

It appears from the record that Moody & Brewster, merchants in Atlanta, Georgia, by false and fraudulent representations induced Bacon & Company, of New York, to sell and deliver to them on credit a large quantity of goods. Subsequently other creditors of Moody & Brewster filed an equitable petition in the nature of a creditors’ bill, and obtained an injunction and the appointment of a receiver. Bacon & Company filed an intervention, in which they set up that the goods obtained from them by the defendants were sold in consequence of false and fraudulent representations by Moody as to the…