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32 S.C.L. 47

Alexander v. Adams

Court of Appeals of South Carolina

Decided December 15, 1846

Court of Appeals of South Carolina · decided 1846-12-15

Tried before Mr. Justice Wardlaw, at Lancaster, Fall Term, 1846. This was a sum pro for money had and received. The plaintiff claimed that, as assignee of an execution, E. G. Crockett v. Massy, he was entitled to the money which the sheriff had collected under that execution. The defendant maintained, that one Barnett, through his attorney, had a prior right to the money.

Decided 1846-12-15

Evans, J.,

¶1delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶2The presiding Judge was satisfied with the sufficiency of the evidence that the money arising from the notes in Mr. Wright’s hands for collection, were appropriated to pay the debt due to Barnett, and this Court is well satisfied with his conclusion. If Mr. Wright had been the attorney of Crockett alone, what passed between them might be a mere direction of Crockett to *48his agent, as to application of the money, which would be revocable. But Mr. Wright was the attorney of Barnett also, and the appropriation was made to him in that capacity. It was therefore not a direction merely, but an actual appropriation of the fund, or a verbal assignment which placed it beyond the subsequent control of Crockett, and which lie could not revoke by his assignment to the plaintiff.

¶3The motion is therefore dismissed.

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