State ex rel. Patrick v. Keeler

On the 4th of May, 1867, Lytle Wiggin and Richard Crowther made a general assignment for the benefit of all their creditors, under the first section of the assignment law of this State. (Wagn. Stat. 150-1, § 1.) The assignment was made to E. W. Decker, to whose use this suit was brought. It was made in St. Louis, where the assignors did business, and the assignee was absent from the city on the day (Saturday) it was executed. The assignors were wholesale merchants, and on executing the assignment they delivered the key of their store to Judge Krum, who had written the assignment, and who…