Nettles v. Huggins
Nettles v. Huggins
Opinion of the Court
This case it seems to me is settled by Tibbetts vs. Weaver, 5 Strob. 144.
In that case it was held that after a voluntary assignment by an insolvent of all his choses for payment of his debts, payment by a debtor of his open account to the plaintiff who sued for his assignees, could not defeat them. If a payment could not be allowed in such a case, much less can a discount, arising after the assignment, have that effect.
In this case, the money was paid after the assignment by the defendant, the surety, in discharge of a debt of the assignor
But it is certainly well settled by our decisions that nothing can be allowed against the assignee, which did not have a perfect legal right of enforcement; before the assignment.
In Williams vs. Hart, 2 Hill, 483, it was held, in an action by the assignee of a sealed note, that a note given to the defendant by the obligee after the assignment, although a renewal of a note given before, could not be set up as a discount.
So in McAlpine vs. Wingard and Miller, and The Same vs. Sondly, 2 Rich. 547, it was held that an independent demand, not due at the time at which the note against which it was attempted to be set up as a discount was transferred, notwithstanding such transfer was with notice, could not be allowed as a discount.
The motion is dismissed.
Motion dismissed,
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