Clarke v. Rist

LEAVITT, District Judge.

This bill is filed by the complainant, as the assignee in bankruptcy of Godfrey Beaumont The facts before the court, so far as it is necessary to notice them, are — that in 1842, the bankrupt Beaumont was possessed of an equitable interest in certain valuable real estate, described in the bill; and in connection with his two sons, constituting the firm of J. Beaumont and Sons, was engaged in business, in the county of Columbiana, as a manufacturer of woollen goods; that in the early part of November, of that year, this firm, laboring under some embarrassments in their…