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22 Jones & S. 500

Secor v. Clark

The Superior Court of New York City · decided 1887-06-14

Appeal-from judgment sustaining a demurrer. The complaint herein alleged the commencement of an action by the present plaintiffs against Lemuel B. Clark, this defendant’s testator; and set forth at length the complaint therein (the facts of which are fully stated in the opinion of the court in the last reported case, ante p. 494); the entry of judgment therein that the assignment there in suit was void, and that plaintiffs recover the sum of $1,667.31; the death of the…

Decided 1887-06-14

By the Court.—O’Gormar, J.

¶1The judgment sustaining the demurrer in this case was proper.

¶2*502' Taking the facts as stated in the complaint and admitted by the demurrer, no reason appears why the plaintiff should have any other process for collecting the .judgment referred to in the complaint, than the ordinary means of enforcing a judgment, viz.: execution against the property of the judgment debtor.

¶3. The judgment obtained was not against the defendant .therein in a fiduciary capacity, and the money of the plaintiffs was not held by the defendant in a fiduciary capacity, but wrongfully, and in flagrant violation of law. The money, unlawfully retained by him, had been mixed with his own, and had wholly lost its identity, and plaintiff’s remedy depending on that judgment was against all the defendant’s property by execution, not against any special portion thereof, on the theory of a special lien on it.

¶4The judgment below is affirmed, with costs.

¶5Sedgwick, Ch. J., concurred.

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