Hills v. Stockwell & Darragh Furniture Co.

On the twenty-second of December last the plaintiffs sued out a writ of attachment against the property of the defendant, based on an affidavit that the latter had disposed of its property with intent to defraud its creditors, and seized part of the personal property which, in August previous, the defendant had chattel mortgaged to Wilder D. Stevens, in trust to secure five persons, indorsers of its paper, aggregating about $87,000, and also to secure its employes for labor debts, due and to come due. The mortgage covered the entire stock in trade of the company, including lumber, furniture,…