Langham v. Lanier

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

On the 27th of September, 1892, S. Pitman and R. E. Machan, composing the firm of S. 0. Pitman, of Beaumont, Texas, made a deed of assignment to J. F. Lanier, a resident of Jefferson County, Texas, of all the property, real, personal, and mixed, owned by said firm, and of all the property owned by each member thereof, except such as by law is exempt from forced sale, for the use and benefit of such of the creditors only of said firm, and of each of the assignors, as would consent thereto, and would accept their proportionate share of the funds arising from sale of…