Crook's v. Turpin

Judge Simpson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The contest in this case is between the assignee of the husband, for a valuable consideration, and the wife, about a fund that belonged to the latter, and was in the hands of her guardian.

The husband and wife had instituted a suit in Chancery against the guardian for a settlement of his accounts and a payment of the money in his hands to them! During the pendency of that suit, a creditor of the husband commenced a separate suit in Chancery for the purpose of subjecting the fund to the payment of his debt, on the ground of the insolvency of the…