Townsend v. Coxe

On the 16th of December, 1891, appellees, residents of Pennsylvania and New York, sued out of the Circuit Court of Lake county a writ of attachment against “The Had-field Company,” a Wisconsin corporation, doing business at Waukesha, in that State, and caused the same to be levied upon a ten-acre tract of land situated in Lake county. Subsequently appellant filed an intervening petition, setting up that “The Hadfield Company,” on the 15th of December, 1891, had, in Wisconsin, “made and delivered to him a deed of assignment to all its property, real and personal, in trust, to pay creditors,…