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20 Ill. 429

Freeman v. Morse

Illinois Supreme Court

Decided April 15, 1858

Illinois Supreme Court · decided 1858-04-15

This was an action of assumpsit. The declaration contained but one count, which was for money had and received. There was a plea of the general issue and a replication. The bill of particulars filed with the declaration, stated an account for money had and received, $1,000, and claiming $700 for a note made by G-. W. P. & A. BL Bowman, to one Harris Hoyt, and by him assigned in blank, to the plaintiff below, but appellee in this court.

Decided 1858-04-15

Breese, J.

¶1This case lies in a small compass, although the

¶2papers are voluminous. The record shows quite plainly, that the appellants here are seeking a double satisfaction of the debt due them from Harris Hoyt.

¶3It appears this note on the Bowmans was payable to Hoyt, and he had assigned it in blank to Morse, and Morse had delivered it to the appellants with directions to appropriate it ón the judgment they held against Harris Hoyt. That after collecting a portion of it, they caused an execution on their judgment to be issued against Harris Hoyt’s property, and coerced the collection of the debt.

¶4Of course, then, Morse had a clear right of action to recover of the appellants the amount of the Bowman note.

¶5But the appellants say, they did not get all the property of Hoyt that they bid off at the sale; that Hovt kept a carpet and melodeon which he refused to deliver up to them, saying “ appellants had a note of his which was to be applied on this judgment, and if he delivered up these things they would get pay twice.” Appellants had receipted to the sheriff for these articles, and by the purchase at the sheriff’s sale, they became to all intents and purposes the owners of them, and they could have replevied them out of Harris Hoyt’s possession.

¶6They did not choose to do so, but attempt to set up this fact, the detention by Harris Hoyt of the carpet and melodeon, against the claim of Morse for the value of the Bowman note, which they had released and given up to Bowman. This they cannot do.

¶7In looking into the evidence, we think it fully sustains the verdict, and there does not appear to be any substantial objections to the instructions.

¶8The judgment is affirmed.

¶9Judgment affirmed.

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