Paxton v. Steele's Adm'r

Citations

• 86 Va. 311
• 10 S.E. 1
• 1889 Va. LEXIS 41

Syllabus

<p>General Receiver—Purchaser—Attorney—Client.—Purchaser at judicial sale executed to S., as receiver, her bonds. To him, as her attorney, she also assigned certain claims to collect and pay on her bonds. Part of the collections he applied as directed; the balance he did not apply. There was nothing to show that he had charged himself, as such receiver, with said balance. Held, as S. collected the money as^purchaser’s attornej’’, she was not entitled to have it credited on her bonds until he had so applied it.</p>