Legal Opinion

Darling v. Andrews

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1864PublishedCited by 1 opinion

Trustee process, in which Paul W. Dudley and Charles P, Whitin, copartners, and John C. Whitin were summoned as trustees.

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Trustee process, in which Paul W. Dudley and Charles P, Whitin, copartners, and John C. Whitin were summoned as trustees. Dudley and Whitin disclosed, in answer to interrogatories, that at the time of the service of the writ the defendant owed them the sum of $106.57. John C. Whitin disclosed in his answer that at the time of the service he owed the defendant the sum of $119.46, for the wages of himself and his minor child; and that this sum was claimed by Dudley and Whitin, under the following assignment, executed by the defendant on the 11th of January 1864: “ I, Sylvester Andrews of…

1Opinion of the CourtHoar, J.

1. The principal defendant made an assignment of all the wages due, or which might become due for two years, from the trustees, on account of the services of himself and his minor children, and the first question is on the validity and effect of this assignment. It was made upon the consideration of the agreement of the assignees to furnish and provide from time to time for the use of the assignor and his family provisions and goods upon credit, as he should need and require the same, to an amount not exceeding in any month the amount of the wages assigned. The assignment then provided that…

2Cited by1 opinion

  1. Evans v. NoonanCalifornia Court of Appeal · 1912

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