Splain v. B. F. Goodrich Rubber Co.

SMYTH, Chief Justice.

One Hartmann, a retail dealer in automobile tires in Washington, was indebted to Fisk Rubber Company and B. F. Goodrich Rubber Company for tires purchased from them. Finding himself unable to pay his bills when they became due, he, on the 10th day of September, 1920, made an agreement with the Goodrich Company to return the tires which he had purchased from it at a price to be later agreed upon, which price was to be credited upon his bill. Shortly afterwards, on the same day, the Fisk Company caused to be levied a writ of attachment upon all the property in the Hartmann…