MR. CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE delivered the opinion of the court.
Boyle & Co., a mercantile firm doing business at Memphis, Tenn., being insolvent, made, on the 17th of November, 1876, a general assignment to J.A. Omberg for the benefit of all their creditors. A deed of trust, in the nature of a mortgage, had been previously executed, conveying some of the property of the firm as security for a debt said to be owing to Jefferson Davis. At the time of this...
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