Case ID: misc_12/html/0328-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Freedman, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Edward S. Bamberger, as Receiver, Respondent, v. Charles B. Fillebrown et al., Impleaded, Appellants.
    (New York Superior Court
    General Term,
    May, 1895.)
    A receiver in a creditor’s action may maintain an action to have priorities ■ determined after conflicting claims have been made against the same fund remaining in his hands after final judgment.
    Appeal by defendants Charles B. Fillebrown and Edward A. Stevens from an order, and the final judgment entered thereon, overruling their demurrer to the complaint of the plaintiff, with costs.
    
      A. H. Bewick, for appellants.
    
      Mortimer Stiefel, for respondent.
   Freedman, J.

Upon the facts alleged in the complaint, which stand admitted by the demurrer, there is no misjoinder of parties plaintiff, and the court has jurisdiction of the subject-matter of the action, and the plaintiff has set forth a sufficient cause of action. This is an action brought by a receiver in a creditor’s action to have priorities determined after conflicting claims had been made against the same fund remaining in his hands after a final judgment. The jurisdiction of a court of equity to entertain such an action is firmly established. It is no answer to say that the same result might be reached by motion. This is always doubtful, for even if the power should exist in a particular case to pass upon1 conflicting claims in a summary way, yet if a conflict as to the facts should be presented by the affidavits of the different parties in interest, the exercise of the power may be declined and the parties left to their remedy by action.

The judgment and order should be affirmed, with costs.

Sedgwick, Oh. J., and McAdam, J., concur.

Judgment and order affirmed, with costs.