Elizabethtown Savings Institution v. Gerber

Van Fleet, V. C.

The object of the bill in this case is to enforce what the complainants call an equitable lien. The fund in dispute is in court.

The following are the material facts: In 1876, the Esterbrook • Steel Pen Manufacturing Company brought a suit against .Simeon J. Ahern in this court, for an account, which resulted in a decree in favor of Ahern for a sum slightly in excess of $500. The sum so found due was, by the order of the court, paid to the clerk June 25th, 1878. Prior to this date, and on the 16th ■of April, 1878, Ahern was adjudged a bankrupt, and shortly afterwards the…