King v. Shoemaker

By the Court.

The specical verdict in this case finds, in substance, that Harper & Reese owed King $130.59 for goods sold. That they also owed Shoemaker $485, for which he held their judgment. They owned property and effects, including some book accounts, amounting in value to $1885,'which they assigned to Shoemaker for the nominal consideration of $1500 paid, but for the real consideration of the debt aforesaid, and the promise of Shoemaker to pay all the debts they owed, including that to the plaintiff, but no debts were specified. They were supposed to be, and were represented as amounting…