Powell v. Clements

This was a suit to set up an equitable assignment in parol, of an indefinite portion of a fund that might be obtained in the future, by the assignor in a contemplated suit against a third person upon an unliquidated money demand. It was not a suit at law to obtain a mere money judgment upon a chose in action. In Haas v. Old National Bank of Evansville, 91 Ga. 307 (18 S. E. 188), it was held: “A regular customer of a bank in the State of Indiana having consigned goods by railway to a point in Georgia, and taken a bill of lading showing on its face that he was the consignor and another person…