National Reserve Co. of America v. Metropolitan Trust Co.

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• concluding that all right, title and interest in the property were transferred without limitation where the assignment agreement contained the language “all his right, title and interest of, in and to”
• “In determining what rights or interest pass under an assignment, the intention of the parties as manifested in the instrument is controlling.”
• Given “[a]n unqualified assignment . . . with no indication of the intent of the parties,... the assignment of a contract passes from assignor to assignee an accrued cause of action for . . . reformation”
• an unqualified assignment of a contract vests in the assignee the assigned contract and all incidental rights and remedies including “certain ancillary causes of action arising out of the subject of the assignment and accruing before the assignment is made”

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