Wallace v. . Grizzard

The plaintiff Wallace, trustee, sought to recover possession of, for the purpose of advertising and selling, a locomotive engine which the defendant Gaskins had conveyed to the defendant Grizzard in a deed of assignment for the benefit of creditors and which had been purchased by the plaintiffs A. L. Shepherd Co. for the defendant T. T. Gaskins from the Smith-Courtney Company of Richmond, Va., on 22 December, 1891, under the following circumstances:

In the fall of 1891 said defendant began to saw lumber in Halifax County, N.C. and to enable him to carry on his operations Shepherd Co. agreed to…