Case Name: Moses Thayer versus Edmund Sherman and Benjamin Adams, Esq., his Trustee
Court: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Jurisdiction: Massachusetts
Decision Date: 1815-09
Citations: 11 Tyng 441
Docket Number: 
Parties: Moses Thayer versus Edmund Sherman and Benjamin Adams, Esq., his Trustee.
Judges: 
Reporter: Massachusetts Reports
Volume: 12
Pages: 385–385

Head Matter:
Moses Thayer versus Edmund Sherman and Benjamin Adams, Esq., his Trustee.
An attorney of this court having money in his hands, collected by him in the course of his profession, is liable as the trustee of the party for whose use such money was received.

Opinion:
Upon the general interrogatory put to Mr. Mams, the supposed trustee in this case, namely, whether, at the time of the service of the summons upon him, he had any effects of the defendant, Sherman, in his hands, the said trustee, who is a counsellor and attorney of this court, answered, that, a short time before the service of the' writ upon him, he had collected, in the line of his profession as an attorney, $ 494 for the said Sherman, which he had received from, the present plaintiff upon two several notes of hand of the plaintiff, which had been before that time put into his hands for collection by Sherman; and that the said sum remained in his keeping at the time-he was summoned as trustee.
Upon this answer he was adjudged trustee.