Strout v. Natoma Water & Minning Co.

Citations

• 9 Cal. 78

Syllabus

<p>Where A received an assignment of stock in a corporation, and the stock was subsequently attached under a judgment against the vendor, and afterwards the stock was regularly transferred to A, who then obtained an assignment of the judgment under which the stock was attached: Held, that the assignment of the judgment at once merged the lien in the higher right, and that A, as regarded third parties, became the absolute owner of the stock.</p>