Agnew v. Agnew
Agnew v. Agnew
Opinion of the Court
Suit by appellee upon a promissory note and to have a lien declared against certain trust funds.
“In consideration of the release and satisfaction of a mortgage executed by Joseph B. Agnew, Jr., and Allie Agnew, his wife, to Emily Agnew, October 14, 1889, to secure the payment of a $900 note, principal and interest notes, which mortgage appears of record in the recorder’s office of Pulaski county, Indiana, in book T, at page 950,1 hereby assign to Emily Agnew a sufficient sum of money now due me or which may hereafter be due me from the proceeds of the sale of lands derived from my father and mother to pay said prin*18 cipal note and the interest thereon at the rate of seven per cent payable annually, and I hereby authorize Daniel Agnew, trustee for the children of Joseph B. Agnew, Sr., and Louisa M. Agnew, to retain from my share of the money held by him a sufficient sum to pay said note if the same shall not be paid before final distribution of the money held by him for said children.”
This assignment was accepted hy appellee, whereupon she executed the release of the mortgage. The note of $900 has been retained by appellee since its execution, and is now in her possession. The note is due and unpaid. The trustee has in his hands $1,133.50, as the share of appellant Joseph B. Agnew, Jr. There has been no extension of the time of payment of the note, and no payments have been made thereon. 0
The court concludes the law to be: “That there is now due the plaintiff from the defendant Joseph B. Agnew, Jr., and that the same is unpaid, for principal and interest, the sum of $1,572, and for attorneys’ fees, made by the plaintiff in this behalf, $90, and that said amount, principal, interest, and attorneys’ fees — to wit, $1,662 — is a lien upon any sum of money that is now due or may hereafter become due said Joseph B. Agnew, Jr., from the proceeds of the sale of lands derived from his father or mother, Joseph B. Agnew, Sr., and Louisa M. Agnew, when the same shall become available, to wit, after the death of said Louisa M. Agnew, provided, the judgment rendered by this court upon these findings and conclusions of law shall not be paid before said funds become available.”
The determination of the questions argued by appellants’ counsel depends upon the construction to be given the assignment executed by appellant Joseph B. Agnew, Jr., to appellee. It is insisted hy counsel that this instrument, executed October 10, 1894, extended the time of payment of the note until the death of the father and mother, who executed the trust deed, at which time a distribution of the proceeds of the land should be made. The assignment was
Under the findings appellee was entitled to a judgment on the note with interest at eight per cent. However, she is not entitled to a decree that the judgment for this amount is a lien on the trust funds, for the reason that appellants assigned only so much of the fund in the hands of the trustee as would be sufficient to pay the principal of the note and seven per cent interest thereon. The judgment against appellants for the face of the note with eight per cent interest is right, but the lien on the trust fund should be only for the face of the note and interest thereon at seven per cent per annum from the time of the maturity of the note to the date of the rendition of the judgment.
Judgment reversed, with instructions to restate the conclusion of law.
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