Brown v. Chamberlain, Miler & Co.
Supreme Court of Florida
This case was decided at Tallahassee, A full statement of the ease, and the evidence therein, will be found in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The bill in this case was filed in the Circuit Court of the county of Alachua, to enjoin the collection and recover possession of a large number of notes, drafts and other evidences of indebtedness, amounting to near thirty thousand dollars, which Geo. L. Brown, in his lifetime, deposited with the defendants, as the bill alleges, for safe-keeping.
The defence set up in the answer is that the deposit was made by said Brown,, not for safe-keeping but as collateral security to the debts he owed the defendants and his other Charleston creditors, and that said Brown verbally assigned, transferred…
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