Smith v. . White

This action was commenced on the 20th day of January, 1859, in the District Court of the city of New York, by the service of a summons on the defendants personally. On the return day of this summons the parties appeared and put in their pleadings.

The plaintiff, as the general assignee of William A. Smith, for the benefit of creditors, in and by his complaint alleged that the defendants after the assignment to him, had taken and converted to their own use certain property which had come to his possession as a part of the assets of the bankrupt, and claimed damages to the amount of $250. The…