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55 Iowa 142

Gallaher v. Pendleton

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided December 11, 1880

Supreme Court of Iowa · decided 1880-12-11

The plaintiff obtained a judgment against one Robinson, and afterward Robinson obtained a judgment against the plaintiff. Robinson, for a valuable consideration, assigned Ms judgment to tbe defendants, wbo bad no notice of tbe plaintiff’s judgment against Robinson. An execution was issued upon each judgment and put into tbe bands of tbe sheriff. Tbe plaintiff claims tbe right to have tbe one judgment set off against tbe other. Tbe defendants deny this right.

Decided 1880-12-11

Adams, Ch. J.

¶1i. jtroewhen mument.assisn — Mutual judgments, the executions on which are in tbe hands of the same officer, may be set off the one against tbe other. Code, section 3097. These judgments were originally mutual, and are so now unless they ceased to be mutual by reason

¶2of tbe assignment of Robinson’s judgment to tbe defendants. Tbe question presented arose in Bell v. Perry et al., 43 Iowa, 368. It was there held, in substance, that tbe assignment of one of tbe judgments destroyed tbe mutuality and took tbe judgments out of tbe provision of tbe Code above cited.

¶3"Whether, in case tbe defendants had brought an action upon tbe judgment assigned to them by Robinson, this plaintiff could have set up bis judgment against Robinson by way of counter-claim is a different question, and is not, we think, presented in this record.

¶4In our opinion tbe judgment of tbe Circuit Court must be

¶5Affirmed

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