Bowland v. Wilson, Palmer & Co.

This is an appeal from the action of the Circuit Court for Somerset County overruling a motion in arrest of judgment. The motion was made in a proceeding of involuntary insolvency, and the material facts are these:

Wilson, Palmer & Co., and Young, Creighton & Diggs filed in January, 1889, a petition against Bowland, charging that they were'' creditors of Bowland to an *311amount exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars; that Bowland on and before the 2nd of October, 1888, was a merchant doing business in Somerset County, and that their debts had occurred prior to that time; that said Bow-land, in…