Marvin v. Chambers

BENEDICT, District Judge.

This is an action brought by Richard Marvin, assignee in bankruptcy of Joseph Farrel, to set aside a mortgage made by Farrel to the defendant James Chambers. It appears, from the evidence, that Farrel was a dealer in boots and *928shoes, accustomed to buy goods of the defendant. On the 5th of June, 1874, Farrel, not being at the time indebted to Chambers, applied to Chambers to buy more goods upon credit, whereupon it was agreed that goods should be furnished him from time to time, upon the security of a mortgage upon certain lands. In pursuance of this arrangement, the…