Chenault v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1886
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1952
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
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““If tlie appellant, as receiver, represented assignees of Williams & Stevenson for value, tlie rule might he different; probably it would be different. Or, if appellee bad acquired bis right to- the debt pleaded by him as a set-off, after tlie assignment for the benefit of creditors, the rule would be different. But the appellant, as receiver, does not represent assignees for value. The assignees are merely the voluntary representatives of Williams & Stevenson for tiie benefit of their creditors. The equitable rigid, acquired by these creditors by reason of the assignment consisted in tlie right to an equal division of the assignor’s assets among themselves. These assets are the assets found to be due after deducting all just set-offs, counterclaims, discounts, etc. This balance they are entitled to, and no more. This is all the fund Williams & Stevenson would have to satisfy their creditors, in case they had made no assignment for the benefit of tlioir creditors. Had Williams & Stevenson sued on these notes in place of the receiver, there is no. doubt that the appellee could use as a set-oil' (he amount he had paid the bank for Williams & Stevenson on said joint obligation, which would have disabled Williams & Stevenson to that extent to meet (he. demands of their other creditors. Instead, the voluntary assignee's of Williams & Stevenson— railier, the receiver — bring suit on these notes; so, to say that tlie creditors of Williams & Stevenson, by the voluntary assignment, ca”
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