Rowe v. Rand

During the year 1879, the First National Bank of Indianapolis, since distinguished as No. 55 of that name, and the Indiana Banking-Company, the name assumed by a firm of private bankers, obtained judgments of foreclosure against the Shaw Carriage Company upon chattel mortgages executed to them respectively upon carriages, buggies and other vehicles, and procured the appointment of William Eowe, the appellant in this cause, as receiver to take charge of the business of that company at a stipulated compensation per week. At a sheriff’s sale of a part of the mortgaged property, held in May,…