Clan Renald v. Wyckoff

— The judgment debtor insists that letters patent are personal property, and that neither the court, nor any judge thereof, has jurisdiction to order an assignment of personal property. In Porter agt. Williams (5 How., 441) and Bostwick agt. Menck (40 N. Y., 383) it was simply decided that an assignment to a receiver appointed in supplementary proceedings under the Code is-not necessary to pass the title of the judgment debtor to personal property, but *510that the legal title to such property becomes vested in the receiver by virtue of his appointment. The question of power to order an…