In re the Assignment of Mills
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeals by Edward Warren Henck and others from an order of the Supreme Court, made at the Mew York Special Term and entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Mew York on the 2d day of March, 1908, directing Edward Harding, as assignee, to sell certain securities held by him and to distribute the proceeds.
1Opinion of the Court
McLaughlin, J.:
Sometime prior to the 22d of August, 1907, the appellant Beach left with the firm of Mills Brothers & Co. for safekeeping certain certificates of stock, indorsed in blank, among which was a certificate for 300 shares of the common stock of the United States Steel Company. On the day named Mills Brothers & Go. made a general assignment for the benefit of creditors. There was then outstanding against the firm a loan payable to the Colonial Bank of Mew York, which, with interest, amounted to $35,004.86, and as collateral security for its payment the firm had pledged certain…
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