Rahilly v. Wilson

NELSON, District Judge.

This case is one of general interest, and involves questions of importance to the business community, or at least to that portion of it dealing in the staple products of this state. The suit is brought to settle the title to twenty-one thousand five hundred bushels of wheat, or its representative in money, now' lying in the depository of the bankrupt court. Geo. Atkinson & Co. and their successors, Atkinson & Kellogg, were engaged at Lake City as warehousemen and commission and forwarding merchants, during the fall of 180S, and up to December 8th, 1870, when they filed…