Case Name: Cook v. Conway's Executors
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1814-04
Citations: 2 Cranch 99
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cook v. Conway’s Executors.
Judges: (Fitzhugh, J., absent,)
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 2
Pages: 99–99

Head Matter:
Cook v. Conway’s Executors.
An assignment of “all the assignor’s estate and effects in possession, or which may accrue or become due and owing to him,’’ will not transfer a mere possibility of a legacy.
Daniel Muse assigned his wife’s legacy, after the death of R. Conway, the testator, to Cook ; but before the testator’s death he had assigned to R. Edwards and S. Downing, “ all his estate and effects in possession, or .which may accrue or become due and owing to him.”

Opinion:
The Court
(Fitzhugh, J., absent,)
was of opinion that Cook was entitled to the legacy.