Miller v. Waite

This action was brought by Fred A. Miller in the district court of Lancaster county to recover of the defendants, Charles E. Waite and others, the value of a stock of merchandise. The material averments of the petition are that the plaintiff, being the sheriff of Lancaster county, received on August 1,1894, a deed of assignment whereby the Muir-Cowan Company, a partnership, organized for the purpose of trade, and doing business in the city of Lincoln, transferred to him all of its property for the benefit of firm creditors; that the plaintiff took im*320mediate possession of the assigned estate,…