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24 Mass. 146

Wait v. Gibbs

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 25, 1828

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1828-10-25

Assumpsit for money had and received, for the purpose of recovering the plaintiff’s proportion of the proceeds of three fishing trips performed by him in the defendants’ vessel called the Clarion. Plea, the general issue.

Decided 1828-10-25

Per Curiam

¶1A specific demand, and an offer to pay the great and little generals or to have them deducted, might be necessary, if this were an action for a proportion of the fish ; but the fish had been turned into money, and a balance was due to the plaintiff, and an action for money had and received lies to recover it without an actual demand. But here was a demand for a proportion of the fish, which would be sufficient in this action, if a demand were necessary.

¶2Judgment according to verdict.*

¶3 S.C. 4 Pick. 298.

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