Case ID: so2d_121/html/0052-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

George WALSH and Alfred A. Johnson, as Trustees in Bankruptcy of Lee Vine’s Woodworking, Inc., Appellants, v. Hymen LAKE, Appellee.
    No. 59-290.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida. Third District.
    June 6, 1960.
    J. Leo McShane and Edward L. Walton, Miami, for appellants.
    Herbert L. Markow, Miami Beach, for appellee.
   PER CURIAM.

Affirmed.

HORTON, C. J., and CARROLL, CHAS., J., concur.

PEARSON, J., dissents.

PEARSON, Judge

(dissenting)'.

This is an appeal from a summary final decree for the plaintiff in a suit to impress a- lien upon certain funds payable from a bankrupt insurance carrier to a trustee for a bankrupt corporation and an employee of that corporation. It is my view that in equity the funds were not the property of the bankrupt employer but belonged in good conscience to the injured workman because they were paid for the latter’s use and benefit. Therefore, the bankrupt employer could not contract to give any of the proceeds to a third party, since the former had no legal or equitable interest in the funds.

I would reverse.