Parsell v. Patterson

This action is trover for a small stock of goods which the plaintiff, who was sheriff of the county of • Genessee, had seized upon attachment against the goods and chattels of a co-partnership known as Davis & Yiger, but which the defendant Patterson had taken from the plaintiff’s possession and sold to the other defendants. Patterson claimed the goods under a general assignment made by Davis & Yiger, bearing date September 5, 1876, and purporting to transfer all their property to Patterson as trustee for all their creditors. Patterson immediately took possession under the assignment, and the…