West v. Platt
| Decision Date | 20 November 1874 |
| Citation | 116 Mass. 308 |
| Court | United States State Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts Supreme Court |
| Parties | Samuel West v. Isaac L. Platt & another & trustees |
Suffolk. Contract against Isaac L. Platt and Edward A. Boyd described in the writ as doing business in New York under the name and style of Platt & Boyd. John R. Sowle and Joseph Ward were summoned as trustees. At January term, 1874, of the Superior Court, at which the writ was returnable, the trustees answered that at the time of the service of the writ upon them they had no effects of Isaac L. Platt and Edward A Boyd in their hands; but in answer to interrogatories filed by the plaintiff, admitted that they had funds of John R Platt and Edward A. Boyd, copartners of the firm of Platt & Boyd, which funds, immediately after service of process upon them, they paid over to the firm of Platt & Boyd, taking from them a bond of indemnity. After the filing of the trustees' answers to the interrogatories, the plaintiff had leave to amend his writ and declaration by striking out "Isaac L." and inserting in place thereof "John R."
The Superior Court charged the trustees; the defendants were defaulted and execution ordered to issue against the defendants' effects in the hands of said trustees. The trustees appealed.
Judgment affirmed.
J. E. Hudson, for the trustees, cited Hawes v. Waltham, 18 Pick. 451; Fisk v. Herrick, 6 Mass. 271; Nash v. Brophy, 13 Met. 476; Knapp v. Levanway, 27 Vt. 298; Willis v. Crooker, 1 Pick. 204; Fairfield v. Baldwin, 12 Pick. 388; Putnam v. Hall, 3 Pick. 445; Emerson v. Upton, 9 Pick. 167; and contended that Vermilyea v. Roberts, 103 Mass. 410, was distinguishable, on the ground that in that case the trustee had not paid over the funds before the amendment, and because the amendment further described the same defendant and not a different person.
O. W. Holmes, Jr., for the plaintiff.
The answer of the trustees admits that they were indebted to a firm of Platt & Boyd. Boyd was correctly named in the writ, and the error in Platt's Christian name was cured by the amendment. The payment by the trustees, after service of the writ, and before the amendment, to the principal defendant, taking a bond of indemnity from him, did not alter their condition. Judgment against the trustees will protect them against any claim of the defendant. No other party having acquired intervening rights, by attachment...
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