Wood v. Wallace

One Coffman was indebted to Wood, and to pay his indebtedness, the former assigned to the latter, without writing, so much of a judgment against one Gaston as would pay the same. The judgment was, by Coffin, placed in the control and under the management of Wood, who proceeded to issue execution thereon, and caused the money to be made by the sheriff, who paid it over to Wallace, the clerk of the court in which the judgment was ¡rendered. In the meantime, Coffin died, and Sullioan, his .administrator, refuses to recognize the assignment, and insists on the payment of the proceeds of the…