Wolf v. Stix

Me. Chief- Justice Waite

delivéréd the opinion of the court.

This was a bill in chancery, filed by Louis Stix &' Co. in; the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, in accordance' with the laws and practice of that State, against Marks, Pump, & Co. and M. Wolf, >bo recover a debt due them from Marks, Pump, & Co., and to set aside a sale of goods by the latter firm to Wolf, because, as alleged, it was made to defraud creditors. A writ of attachment was sued out upon this bill, and the goods were attached in the possession of Wolf.

By the Code of.Tennessee (sect. 3509), the' defendants to an…