Pettibone v. Byrne

Defendant, as sheriff, on April 25, 1891, attached certain personal property of the Watersmeet Lumber Company, and plaintiff replevied the property. The only question in the case is whether, as against creditors of the attachment debtor, the arrangements under which plaintiff held the property were valid. The instrument under which plaintiff claims the property, omitting the description of the property, reads as follows:

“ This indenture, made this 13th day of April, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one, between the Watersmeet Lumber Company, a corporation…