National Fire Insurance v. Chambers
New Jersey Court of Chancery
On interpleader. The contest in this case is between the defendants Harding, Whitman & Company on the one side and Mr. J. J. Crandall on the other. Both parties claim under the defendant, Frank Chambers, an admitted creditor of the complainant.
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On interpleader. The contest in this case is between the defendants Harding, Whitman & Company on the one side and Mr. J. J. Crandall on the other. Both parties claim under the defendant, Frank Chambers, an admitted creditor of the complainant. Harding, Whitman & Company claim under an attachment issued out of the court of common pleas No. 4, of the city of Philadelphia, against Chambers, and Mr. Crandall claims under an assignment from him subsequent in date to the attachment of Harding, Whitman & Company. The question is whether Harding, Whitman & Company’s attachment gave them a lien upon…
1Opinion of the Court
Pitney, V. C.
The only question here involved is this, Did Harding, Whitman & Company, by their proceeding in attachment in the Philadelphia common pleas, obtain a lien upon the debí due from the complainant to Chambers, now represented by the fund in court in this cause? or, as it may be otherwise expressed, Did the proceeding effect an involuntary assignment of the debt from Chambers to Harding, Whitman & Company ? If such was the result of their proceeding, it seems to me to follow conclusively *475that they must prevail in the present contest upon the familiar principle that he who is first in…
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