I. Blum & Co. v. Marks

The plaintiffs in these cases, residents of the city of New York, attached on hoard the steamship “ Star of the Union,” upon her arrival at this port on the twenty-fourth of April, 1866, certain merchandise which had been sold to the defendant by the intervenors about the twelfth day of the same month, and consigned on the steamer above named.

The obligations on which the plaintiffs sued were contracted February 23, 1866, and were for goods sold at a credit of sixty and ninety day's, abd upon botes at forty-five and sixty days.

The property seized consisted of six cases of merchandise. They…