Assigned Estate of Hamill

Citations

• 3 Pa. Super. 80
• 1896 Pa. Super. LEXIS 108

Syllabus

<p>Assignment for creditors — Liability of assignee.</p> <p>An attachment execution having been issued, the garnishee by consent of the parties paid over the money to the plaintiff in the attachment who agreed to apply it in a manner specified by defendant, it being agreed that plaintiff should discontinue the attachment; the application specified proving impossible the defendant substituted other directions assented to by plaintiff. Some time later the defendant in the execution assigned to the plaintiff in the execution. Held, that the assignee was not bound to account for moneys received by him as the proceeds of the fund attached and applied in accordance with the agreement under which they were received.</p>