In re Bleakley
New York Court of Chancery
This was an application, on the part of A. Blpakley, to compel the payment of the amount of a judgment collected for him on a creditor’s bill in this court, against John White.
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This was an application, on the part of A. Blpakley, to compel the payment of the amount of a judgment collected for him on a creditor’s bill in this court, against John White. From the petition of the complainant, it appeared that in February, 1839, he recovered a judgment against White, in the supreme court, for $338,18 ; and that L. Webb, one of the solicitors of this court, afterwards' applied to Bleakley to purchase the judgment, and offered to give him $50 therefor, and take the risk of its collection. This proposition Blealdey declined ; but „ offered to give him one half of- what…
1Opinion of the Court
The Chancellor.
The counsel, in whose hands the $50 still remained at the time of the service on him of the petition and notice of this application, has made himself personally ^responsible to the petitioner for that amount, by paying it over to the solicitor, after he was fully apprised of the legal and •equitable right of Bleakley to that sum, as well as to the residue of the fund already paid over to the solicitor. The peti7 lion distinctly states the grounds of the petitioner’s claim, and prayed that the counsel, or solicitor who had received the money, might be ordered to pay it over to…
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