Bangs v. Dunn

Citations

• 66 Cal. 72
• 4 P. 963
• 1884 Cal. LEXIS 686

Syllabus

<p>Public Officer—Sal aba — Assignment before Due.—The assignment of his salary by a public officer before it becomes due, is contrary to public policy and void.</p> <p>Id.—Right of Purchaser from Assignee.—The deputies and copyists of a county clerk assigned their demands upon the treasury to him, who in turn assigned them to the petitioner, at a date prior to the time when the services had been rendered, or the salaries earned. Held, that the petitioner took part in a transaction contrary to public policy, and must be held to have knowingly contravened the law, and could not enforce payment of the assigned demands.</p> <p>Exceptions—Appeal—Practice.—An order consolidating certain actions, and directing and providing for interventions, will not be reviewed on appeal, unless an exception to the order is taken in the court below.</p>