Lockwood v. Beckwith
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant Beckwith from the Wayne Circuit in Chancery. The defendant Thomas having deposited with Barstow & Lockwood, as attorneys, certain notes, mortgages, and other claims for collection, subsequently, on the 12th of May, 1849, executed and delivered to the firm of W. C. & A. A. Hunter a note for $2000, and two months thereafter, by an assignment under seal, transferred all the claims in the hands of Barstow & Lockwood to the Hunters, as collar teral security…
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Appeal by defendant Beckwith from the Wayne Circuit in Chancery. The defendant Thomas having deposited with Barstow & Lockwood, as attorneys, certain notes, mortgages, and other claims for collection, subsequently, on the 12th of May, 1849, executed and delivered to the firm of W. C. & A. A. Hunter a note for $2000, and two months thereafter, by an assignment under seal, transferred all the claims in the hands of Barstow & Lockwood to the Hunters, as collar teral security for said note, stating in the assignment that the note was given for borrowed money. This assignment was deposited by the…
1Opinion of the Court
Martin Ch. J.:
Two questions are raised by the parties interpleading, for our determination: 1st, Whether Thomas is entitled to set off the one-half of the judgment obtained on what is called the Enos contract, being about two thousand dollars, against the note for two thousand dollars, in Beckwith’s hands; and, 2d, Whether he is entitled to set off the one thousand dollar acceptance of the Hunters against such note,
The claim to set off the one-half of the judgment obtained on the Enos contract, is based upon the proposition that the firm of W. C. & A. A. Hunter was interested in, the…
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