Ex parte Hopkins

On the 1st day of February, 1883, William F. Alexander and William R. Logan, then partners in busi*158ness under the firm name of W. F. Alexander <fc Co., at Salem, in Washington county, being indebted and in embarrassed and failing circumstances, made a voluntary assignment to the appellant Hopkins, in trust for the benefit of all their bona fide creditors, of all their property, rights, credits, moneys and effects, of every kind and description. The appellant Hopkins accepted the trust, qualified and entered upon the discharge of his duties as such assignee. On the 29th day of December, 1884,…