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66 Mass. 234

Benson v. Whitney

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1853

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1853-10-15

This was an action of assumpsit for work and labor, against Samuel B. Whitney and Michael Rogers. The defendant Rogers was defaulted, and, upon trial, a verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff for ninety dollars.

Decided 1853-10-15

By the Court.

¶1The evidence shows no assignment of which the court could take notice, and no such notice by Donahoe to Whitney, of the assignment to Donahoe, as to enable the defendant safely to deal with Donahoe as the equitable assignee of a chose in action, to warrant the court in allowing Donahoe to take the control of the suit as plaintiff; and the power of the nominal plaintiff to control the suit was not superseded by such intervention.

¶2The plaintiff and defendant having agreed that the action be entered “ neither party,” it is ordered that such entry be now made.

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