Emerson v. Detroit Steel & Spring Co.

The complainants were, after the making of a common-law assignment by the George T. Smith Middlings Purifier' Company, appointed by the circuit court in chancery to act as receivers for the assigned estate, and in that capacity filed two several bills against the two defendants named, askiug to have attachments which had been sued out by the defendants herein against the property of the purifier company set aside, upon the grounds- — -First, that the proceedings were so irregular as to render the attachments invalid; and, second, that there existed no sufficient ground for suing out an…