Huey v. Prince
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 65, Jau. T., 1898, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1897, No. 282, on bill in equity. Bill in equity in the nature of an interpleader bill to determine the rights of the parties to certain funds in dispute. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court.
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Appeal, No. 65, Jau. T., 1898, by defendants, from decree of C. P. No. 4, Phila. Co., March T., 1897, No. 282, on bill in equity. Bill in equity in the nature of an interpleader bill to determine the rights of the parties to certain funds in dispute. The facts appear by the opinion of the Supreme Court. The court, in an opinion by Willson, J., entered the following decree: 1. And now, this twenty-ninth day of January, 1898, the above entitled case having come on for hearing, and having been argued by counsel upon the bill of complaint and the answers ol the several defendants, the court upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mr. Justice Dean,
On December 20, 1895, L. H. Taylor & Company, brokers, by writing under seal, assigned to Arthur B. Huey certain book balances and equitable demands payable to the partnership, in trust, to divide the amount pro rata among certain specified creditors, whose names appeared on a list attached to the assignment. This assignment was not recorded. The next day, the same partnership made a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors, to George G. Pierie and Harrison C. Seeler, which assignment was duly recorded the day following. The assignee under the unrecorded…
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