An Assignment
A short notice of a country merchant's insolvency filing near Austin, part of the paper's routine coverage of local commercial troubles.
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The Austin Weekly Statesman · January 7, 1897 · Page 6
1 min readMr. Douglass Duval, doing business at Duval, made an assignment yesterday for the benefit of the following creditors: W. B. Corwin, legal services, $125.00; Nannie Duval, borrowed money, $870.00. Total, $995.00.
The deed of trust covers Mr. Duval's stock of goods and a tract of land situated in Travis county.
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