Claim of Thumberg v. Roejohn Associates, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that statute is violated \only if the primary purpose of the purchase or taking by assignment of the thing in action is to enable the attorney to commence a suit thereon\ (emphasis added)
• holding that statute is violated “only if the primary purpose of the purchase or taking by assignment of the thing in action is to enable the attorney to commence a suit thereon” (emphasis added)
• finding a triable issue of fact raised by defendant's affirmative defense of champerty
• finding a triable issue of fact raised by defendant’s affirmative defense of champerty
• “[T]he question of the intent and purpose of the purchaser or assignee is generally one of fact to be decided by the trier of the facts.”
• “Clearly, then, a bona fide issue of fact is presented as to the intent and purpose of the plaintiff in taking an assignment of the chose in action from the executor.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).