Phinney v. Friedman

The defendants, as assignees under an assignment at common law for the benefit of creditors of the R. & G. Shoe Company, to which reference subsequently will be made as the company, received as part of its assets two cases of cut leather soles bought of the plaintiffs by the company in two shipments, one on February 28 and the other on March 31, 1913. And upon being informed of the assignment, which was dated April 9, 1913, the sellers demanded a return of the goods because, as they alleged, the sales having been induced by the fraud of the company, no title passed. The defendants having…