Jaffrey v. Brown

Brown Bros, were dealers in dry goods and kindred merchandise, at Port Valley, in this district. On the seventeenth of October, 1885, they made an assignment, having previously, by divers deeds of mortgage purporting to incumber their stock in trade, attempted to prefer certain favored persons whom they pretended were creditors. The remnant of the goods, assigned for the general creditors, was not adequate for the payment of tho firm’s liabilities; in fact, it was a scarcely appreciable moiety of a large and valuable assortment of merchandise, which had been composed of the identical articles…