Cooke v. Thresher
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action brought by the plaintiff as trustee in insolvency of Jedediah Spalding, to recover money of the estate claimed to have been received by the defendants, who set up in defence an equitable lien upon it. The case was brought to the Court of Common Pleas and tried to the jury before Mather, J. Verdict for the plaintiff, and appeal by the defendants. The court made a finding of the facts, which are sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtPardee, J.
The defendants, attorneys at law, in compliance with instructions from J. Spalding, instituted several suits in his favor against George H. Harvey; three judgments were rendered for Spalding; Harvey appealed from two of them; during the pende'ncy of the appeals Spalding made an assignment in insolvency. At that time he was indebted to the defendants in the sum of $313.03, for services rendered and money expended in the matter of these suits, and services in other matters. Subsequent to the assignment they, with the approbation and consent of Cooke, the plaintiff, trustee upon Spalding’s…
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