Case Name: William Noyes & Co. v. Brent, Garnishee of E. Wilmarth, Jr.
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1839-03
Citations: 5 Cranch 551
Docket Number: 
Parties: William Noyes & Co. v. Brent, Garnishee of E. Wilmarth, Jr.
Judges: 
Reporter: Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia (District of Columbia - reported by Mackey)
Volume: 5
Pages: 551–551

Head Matter:
William Noyes & Co. v. Brent, Garnishee of E. Wilmarth, Jr.
A garnishee rvho received the goods of the defendant under a deed of trust, fraudulent in law as to some of the creditors, if he acted bona, fide, is entitled to a reasonable compensation for his services in taking care of the goods, and selling them, whoever may be entitled to the net proceeds.
This was an attachment of the goods of Ezra Wilmarth, junior, in the hands of Mr. W. L. Brent, at the suit of William Noyes & Co. The garnishee held them under a deed to him by the defendant to secure a debt said to be due by the defendant to his father.
Mr. Marbury, for the plaintiffs,
prayed the Court to instruct the jury, in effect, that if they should find the deed to the garnishee to be fraudulent in law as to these plaintiffs, the garnishee is not entitled to retain out of the fund in his hands, a compensation for services rendered by him as trustee under the deed while acting for the supposed creditor intended to be secured thereby.

Opinion:
The Court, however,
(Thruston, J.
absent,) was of opinion that the garnishee, if he acted bon& ficle, was entitled to a reasonable compensation for his services in taking care of the goods, and selling them, whoever might be entitled to the net proceeds.