Stiles v. Davis & Barton
Supreme Court of the United States
Writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. Solomon Davis and Joseph Barton brought trover in the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, against Edmund GL Stiles, for twelve boxes, one trunk, and one bale containing dry goods, of the value of four thousand dollars.
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Writ of error to the District Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois. Solomon Davis and Joseph Barton brought trover in the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, against Edmund GL Stiles, for twelve boxes, one trunk, and one bale containing dry goods, of the value of four thousand dollars. On the trial it was proved that Stiles, who was a common carrier, had by his agents, Scofield and Curtis, received the goods in question from Benjamin Cooley, attorney for Davis & Barton, (the plaintiffs,) to be forwarded to Ilion, New York, at…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Nelson
The case was this: The plaintiffs below, Davis and Barton, had purchased the remnants of a store of dry goods of the assignee of a firm at Janesville, Wisconsin, who had failed, and made an assignment for the benefit of their creditors. The-goods were packed in boxes, and delivered to the agents of the Union Despatch Company to be conveyed by railroad to Ilion', Herkimer county, New York.
On the arrival of the goods in Chicago, on their way to the place of destination, they were seized by the sheriff, under an .attachtííént issued in behalf of the creditors of the insolvent firm at Janesville,…
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