Ware v. Hirsch

The appellee brought an action of trespass, de bonis asportatis, against the appellant, and upon a trial by the court "without a jury, recovered a judgment for §130, from which an appeal is prosecuted to this court. It appears that one J. W. Jefferson, a resident of Indiana, was the owner of a stock of general merchandise at Ludlow, in Champaign county, which was conducted in his name by his clerks.

Becoming embarrassed he sold the entire stock of goods to certain of his creditors, eight in number, and gave them a bill of sale, whereupon these creditors, by a written appointment, authorized…