Cullen v. Woolverton

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Gauhetsof, J.

The plaintiff is the assignee of a claim of one Lawshe against the estate of Asher Woolverton, deceased, and has brought suit as such assignee against the administrator of Woolverton under the authority of the act of 1890 (Gen. Stat., p. 2591, § 340), which provides that all choses in action arising on contracts shall be assignable and the assignee may sue thereon in his own name, with the restriction that in such suit there shall be allowed all just set-offs) discounts and defences before the defendant had notice of the assignment.

Lawshe’s…