W. G. Press & Co. v. Fahy

Appellant filed a creditor’s bill in the circuit court of Cook county, praying that a membership which Thomas F. Fahy had in the Traders Livestock Exchange be applied in payment of a judgment theretofore obtained by appellant against Eahy. Everett C. Brown and Seth B. St. John, co-partners as Brown & St. John, (hereinafter called appellees,) filed an intervening petition in said cause, claiming that the certificate of membership had been assigned to them for a valuable consideration. Upon a hearing the court entered a decree dismissing the bill for want of equity, from which decree appellant…