Gelshenen v. Harris

The plaintiff sues to recover the amount of an alleged indebtedness for goods and merchandise sold in October, 1884, by the firm of Henry Levy& Son, of the city of New York, to the defendants, a firm doing business in Milwaukee under the name and style of L. Harris & Sons. The complaint alleges that on the fifteenth day of December, 1884, Levy & Son made a voluntary assignment of their property and assets for the benefit of creditors, under the laws of the state of New York, and that the plaintiff was constituted their assignee in the instrument of assignment, and, as such assignee, became…