Rogers v. Empkie Hardware Co.

In the spring of 1883 the firm of Lanick & Urban were doing business at Wahoo, and were indebted to the defendant about $1,200, and to the plaintiff about $183. In April of that year a traveling salesman of the defendant ■'called upon Lanick & Urban and found that they were in embarrassed circumstances, and about to make an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. He persuaded them not to make such assignment, but to turn the goods over to him in satisfaction of defendant’s debt, and he seems to have promised to take one of the partners into partnership with himself. There is some…