Palmer v. Jordan

This is an action for the conversion of a stock of goods, brought by the assignee of one Gibb against purchasers of the stock from Gibb. The purchase was made after Gibb had filed a petition in insolvency. The date of the assignment to the plaintiff does not appear, but before the purchase by the defendants, which was on January 28, 1893, a warrant had issued from the Court of Insolvency, signed by the judge in the usual form, under Pub. Sts. c. 157, § 17, directing the messenger to take possession of Gibb’s estate, and to publish notice of a meeting of creditors for the proof of debts and…