Buhl Iron Works v. Teuton

The plaintiff and defendants were unsecured creditors of the Detroit Tag & Transit Company.

The plaintiff is a corporation, and the defendants are copartners doing business under the firm name of Teuton, McWilliams & Co.

The indebtedness to the plaintiff was evidenced by two promissory notes, due on the sixth and eighth of January, 1886, respectively, for $1,000, and payable at the Detroit National Bank.

The plaintiff claims that on the eighth of January, 1886, it purchased the property in dispute, — consisting of one 12-inch rotary steam-pump, built by the Silsby Manufacturing Company ; seven…