Shaw v. Howe

delivered the'opinion of the Court.

This is an appeal from an interlocutory order appointing a receiver.

The record shows that one S. A. Kean made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors to one B. J. Jacobs. That Jerome Howe and Arthur Hill, the appellees, were creditors of Kean.

That the assets of Kean, amounting to several hundreds of thousands of dollars in value, were being administered by Jacobs under the direction of the County Court, of Cook County; that the debt to the appellees was established against Kean—all as the statute concerning such assignments directs. .

Then Kean and…