Case Name: Rudd & Brush v. Paine & Miller
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1810-07
Citations: 2 Cranch 9
Docket Number: 
Parties: Rudd & Brush v. Paine & Miller.
Judges: (Thruston, 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: 9–9

Head Matter:
Rudd & Brush v. Paine & Miller.
If tlie defendant directs tlie garnishee to pay the debt due to the first attaching creditor, and he agrees to do so, a creditor who afterwards attaches, before the money is paid over, is not entitled to share it with the firsft attaching creditor.
Chancery attachment. Steer attached first for three hundred dollars; Miller.had seven hundred and seventy-seven dollars in' his hands. Before Rudd & Brlish attached, Paine, (the principal debtor,) came to Alexandria^ and directed the attachment of Steer to be settled by Miller, arid a calculation was made «of the amount,-, and Miller agreed tó. -pay over the balance to Paine. Rudd & Brush afterwards attached.
Mr. Swann, for the plaintiffs,
contended that Rudd & Brush had a right to participate with Steer in the amount intended to be paid to Steer, and that such is the practice in Virginia.' The .settlement between Miller and Paine . does not affect the case. Miller was not bound by this verbaLpromise to pay the debt to Steer. He who asks equity must do equity.
Mr. Taylor, contra.
This was the money of Steer, from the moment of the settlement between Paine and Miller; it was then appropriated, and agreed to by- Mr. F. L. Lee, Steer’s attorney, who only delayed the receipt of it till his return from a journey upon which he was then going. Steer might bring and support an action for money had ajjd received.

Opinion:
The Court
(Thruston, J., absent.)
Steer is to take the whole. A court of Equity will consider that as having been done, which ought to have been done.