Hurwitz v. Starwich

For sometime prior to September 16, 1920, one A. Greenberg owned and operated three millinery stores situated in separate buildings in the city of Seattle, which buildings he held under leases. The businesses were conducted under separate names; one known as “Máximes,” another as the “Fashion Shop,” and the third as the “Criterion.” Greenberg being in failing circumstances and unable to meet the obligations due his creditors, if not in fact insolvent, on the day named made a common law assignment of all of his stock of goods, wares, merchandise and fixtures, in the stores above mentioned,…