Merchants & Co v. Whitescarver
West Virginia Supreme Court
Appeals from Circuit Court, Upshur County. Bills bj^ Merchant & Co. against Whitescarver & Brake and others, and by the Caldwell & Peterson Manufacturing Company against the same defendants. From the decrees rendered, the plaintiffs and others appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
English, Judge:
George H. Whitescarver and Loomis Brake, under the firm name of Whitescarver & Brake, engaged in the hardware business in the town of Buckhannon, West Virginia, became insolvent and indebted to a number of firms and individuals. On the 23rd of July, 1895, said firm sold its stock of hardware to C. W. McCormick for two thousand three hundred and eighty-eight dollars and sixty cents, no part of which purchase money was paid in cash, but Mc*362Cormick executed therefor four notes, — one for five hundred dollars, dated July 23, 1895, payable two years after date, to the order of…
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