Hatcher v. Winters

James Winters, being largely indebted and pecuniarily embarrassed, with a view to secure all his creditors, on or about the 9th day of January, 1871, executed a deed of assignment conveying to Ezekiel L. and Nathan A. Winters, all his property of every kind and description, including all goods, chattels, lands, tenements, bonds, notes and accounts of the firm of James Winters & Son, the said son being N. J. Winters, a minor under twenty-one years of age, who, the petition alleged, had no interest in said firm adverse to said James Winters. The deed excepted from this general assignment the…