Hatheway v. Reed
Decision Date | 28 June 1879 |
Citation | 127 Mass. 136 |
Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
Parties | Bowers C. Hatheway v. Robert H. Reed & trustee |
Suffolk. Trustee process. Writ dated July 28, 1877, and served upon the trustee August 1, 1877. The defendant was defaulted. The Adams Express Company, summoned as trustee answered that at the time of the service of the writ upon it it had no goods, effects or credits of the defendant in its hands. By a further answer, it stated "that on September 28, 1876, the defendant, by a written instrument duly recorded (a copy whereof is hereto annexed), assigned all the wages that should become due to him from said company, from the date thereof to January 1, 1878, to F. O. Barrett, of Boston; that the company was notified of said assignment about the time of the making thereof; that since said notification the wages of the defendant have always been paid to said Barrett; that the July wages of the defendant, viz $ 75, were paid as usual to said Barrett; and that since said assignment the company has had none of the goods, effects or credits of the defendant in its hands or possession." The copy of the assignment annexed to the answer purported to be signed and sealed by the defendant, and to be as follows
On this was the following: "Received and entered September 28 1876...
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