Stewart & Co. v. Hall

This is a contest in Chancery, between “Alexander Stewart & Co.” as attaching creditors of “Keeler, M’Neil & Co.” of New York, and James Hall and Thaddeus Keeler, who claim the same fund (choses in action and equities) by an assignment to trustees for their benefit, executed by one Putnam, as attorney in fact, on the day before the issuing and levying of the attachment, but ante, dated so as to purport to have been delivered three days sooner than it was.

Keeler, M’Neil & Co. being creditors of J. Frazier, of Lexington, for goods sold and advanced to him in a mcr*219eantile concern, in the profits…