Wrenshall State Bank v. Shutt

The plaintiff claims that an action can be maintained against a remote assignor on implied warranty of genuineness although there is no privity of contract between plaintiff and defendants or either of them.

The rule that one cannot maintain an action against a remote assignor of a chose in action is in force in this state. The reasons for this rule may have been more cogent, apparent, and appealing when transfers of accounts and nonnegotiable contracts first occurred and were less frequent than now, but they exist, and neither custom nor legislation has in this state required or effected a…