Massey v. Fisher
Decision Date | 04 May 1894 |
Citation | 62 F. 958 |
Parties | MASSEY et al. v. FISHER. |
Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of Pennsylvania |
Charles Y. Audenreid and Frank P. Prichard, for plaintiffs.
David H. Stone, for defendant.
There is no controversy about the facts; and the plaintiffs' statement may therefore be adopted:
H. H. Kennedy, Cash.'
The plaintiffs claim that the transaction established a fiduciary relation between the parties, while the defendant claims that it established the relation of debtor and creditor only. If the question was new, its proper solution might be open to doubt. Even in such case however, I would adopt the plaintiffs' view. The money was delivered and received to extinguish the note. Neither party contemplated that the bank might use it for another purpose, leaving the note outstanding, and the plaintiffs' liability unextinguished. Such application of it therefore,...
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