CHATFIELD v. BOYLE

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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