Peugh v. Porter
Citations
- 112 U.S. 737
- 5 S. Ct. 361
- 28 L. Ed. 859
- 1885 U.S. LEXIS 1644
Syllabus
<p>An instrument, by which A, as attorney in fact by substitution, for good consideration, assigns to B an interest in claims to be established against a foreign government in a mixed commission, is valid in equity, although made before the establishment of the claim, and creation of the fund ; and may work a distinct appropriation of the fund in B’s favor, to the extent of the assignment, within the rule laid down in Wright v. Ellison, 1 Wall. 16.</p>
How courts have described this case
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- “[I]n contemplation of equity, [it] is not material” that the “very fund now in dispute” was “not... in existence” when an equitable lien over that fund was created
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Judges: Matthews
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