Union Trust Co. v. Walker

Supreme Court

Union Trust Co. v. Walker

107 U.S. 596, 2 S. Ct. 299, 27 L. Ed. 490, 17 Otto 596, 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1253

Supreme Court of the United States·Decided March 12, 1883·No. 1150·Published·Cited by 13 cases

Opinion

Mr. Cheer Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case differs from Union Trust Company v. Souther, ante, p. 591, only in the fact that Walker, the present intervenor and appellee, is the assignee by purchase' from- the original holders of the claims he seeks to have paid, and one of the questions certified is whether, being an assignee and not an original holder, he is entitled to payment. We have ho hesitation in answering this question in the affirmative. As was said in Fosdick v. Schall, 99 U. S. 235, 253, these creditors are paid not because they have in law a lien on the mortgaged property or the income, but- because in equity the earnings of the company constitute a fund for the payment of the expenses which their claims represént, before any income arises which ought to be applied to the discharge of the mortgage debt. Under such circumstances, it- is a matter of no importance that the original creditor has parted with the claim. The right is one that attaches to the debt and not to the person of the original creditor. Consequently the right passes with an assignment of the debt.

Decree affirmed.

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Mr. Cheer Justice Waite

delivered the opinion of the court.

This case differs from Union Trust Company v. Souther, ante, p. 591, only in the fact that Walker, the present intervenor and appellee, is the assignee by purchase' from- the original holders of the claims he seeks to have paid, and one of the questions certified is whether, being an assignee and not an original holder, he is entitled to payment. We have ho hesitation in answering this question in the affirmative. As was said in Fosdick v. Schall, 99 U. S. 235, 253, these creditors are paid not because they have in law a lien on the mortgaged property or the income, but- because in equity the earnings of the company constitute a fund for the payment of the expenses which their claims represént, before any income arises which ought to be applied to the discharge of the mortgage debt. Under such circumstances, it- is a matter of no importance that the original creditor has parted with the claim. The right is one that attaches to the debt and not to the person of the original creditor. Consequently the right passes with an assignment of the debt.

Decree affirmed.

Union Trust Co. v. Walker, 107 U.S. 596, 2 S. Ct. 299, 27 L. Ed. 490, 17 Otto 596, 1882 U.S. LEXIS 1253 (1883).

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