Wardle v. Briggs
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contbact upon an account annexed for work and labor. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: The plaintiff worked for the defendants for the time stated in his declaration, and, on November 28, 1878, there was due him on account of said work the snm of $136.40, and interest from that date.
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Contbact upon an account annexed for work and labor. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, in substance as follows: The plaintiff worked for the defendants for the time stated in his declaration, and, on November 28, 1878, there was due him on account of said work the snm of $136.40, and interest from that date. In July 1874, the plaintiff assigned to Matthew Carroll the amount due and to become due to him from the defendants, which was duly recorded; and the defendants were notified of…
1Opinion of the CourtField, J.
The defendants, as trustees in the trustee process, in order to protect themselves against this suit, which is brought for the benefit of the assignee of the debt attached, to whom the assignment was made before the commencement of the trustee suit, of which they had notice, were bound in law in some manner to inform the court by whom they were charged as trustees that they had received notice of such an assignment, or *519to inform the assignee of the pendency of the trustee suit, that he might appear therein as claimant. Whipple v. Robbins, 97 Mass. 107. Wilkinson v. Hall, 6 Gray, 568. Butler…
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