Andrews Electric, Inc. v. St. Alphonse Catholic Total Abstinence Society
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Bill in equity, .filed in the Superior Court on April' 18, 1918, against St. Alphonse Catholic Total Abstinence Society, the owner of a certain building, James Shields, the contractor who built it for the owner, and Ovide V. Portier, his trustee in bankruptcy, to compel payment to the plaintiff of a sum due to it as a subcontractor and alleged to have been assigned to it by the contractor more than four months before the bankruptcy of the contractor from funds due to him…
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Bill in equity, .filed in the Superior Court on April' 18, 1918, against St. Alphonse Catholic Total Abstinence Society, the owner of a certain building, James Shields, the contractor who built it for the owner, and Ovide V. Portier, his trustee in bankruptcy, to compel payment to the plaintiff of a sum due to it as a subcontractor and alleged to have been assigned to it by the contractor more than four months before the bankruptcy of the contractor from funds due to him from the owner. The suit was heard by N. P. Brown, J., upon the bill, answers and an agreed statement of facts, and, at the…
1Opinion of the CourtPierce, J.
The plaintiff in 1915 was employed as a subcontractor on a building erected for the defendant St. Alphonse Catholic Total Abstinence . Society. The contractor was the defendant James Shields. The defendant Ovide V. Portier is the trustee in bankruptcy of the estate of Shields. At the completion of the work of the plaintiff, Shields owed it $223. It requested Shields to make payment of the debt due, and he thereupon delivered to it the following order upon the society:
“St. Alphonse Total Abstinence Society, Gentlemen: —
ICindly pay to Andrews Electric Inc., the sum of $223 out of the amount…
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