Hutchinson v. Brown
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Hearing on an appeal from a decree in a suit in equity to determine the question of priority as between an as-signee of a judgment and an attaching creditor. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. 1. A judgment dates, not from the time the verdict is received and approved in open court, but from the time of the actual entry of the judgment. The entry of judgment in this case on the day the verdict was received was erroneous.
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Hearing on an appeal from a decree in a suit in equity to determine the question of priority as between an as-signee of a judgment and an attaching creditor. The facts are sufficiently stated in the opinion. 1. A judgment dates, not from the time the verdict is received and approved in open court, but from the time of the actual entry of the judgment. The entry of judgment in this case on the day the verdict was received was erroneous. There was no judgment in.fact until the court had rendered its decision upon the finding of the jury, which was more than a month after the receipt of the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Shepard
This is the second of two appeals growing out of one suit. The controversy is over the proceeds of a judgment recovered by S. P. Brown against the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Company in an action of damages for personal .injuries. The railroad company filing the bill of in-terpleader paid the money into the registry of the court and was discharged with its costs. The first appeal involved the priority of the claim of the attorneys to a part of the fund that had been realized through litigation conducted by them to a successful issue, and was decided in their favor. 7 App. D. C. 548.
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