Haynes v. Gates’s Empirical Analysis
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Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
1
states following
December 1976
most recently cited
2 state decisions
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“But even if the judgment were valid, the defendant, Gates could not, under the circumstances of this case, resist the decree sought against him. It is sufficiently established, by the allegation of the bill and the admission of the answer, that very shortly before taking out the process of garnishment, the defendant, Gates, acquired information from a conversation with the complainant [Haynes], of the funds in the hands of McElrath; and that complainant [Haynes] claimed said fund as belonging to him, by purchase from Croom. With knowledge of this fact, thus acquired, as appears from the record, Gates resorted to the proceeding before mentioned, in order to appropriate the fund to the satisfaction of his demand against Croom and Russell. This he cannot be permitted to do. It would be, in the view of a Court of Equity, a manifest fraud on the rights of the complainant [Haynes]. The money belonged to the complainant [Haynes]; Croom had no claim to it, and no creditor of his had any right, under color of legal process, or otherwise to possess himself of it. And in doing so, the defendant, Gates, must be regarded, in equity, as having received it, and as holding it as the money of the complainant [Haynes], He is, therefore, clearly liable to refund it. And the result would, perhaps, be the same, even though he had obtained possession of the money in ignorance of the fact that it belonged to the complainant [Haynes]. 39 Tenn. 602 . (Emphasis supplied.)”
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