Case Name: BLACK & PRATT vs. A. T. McMURTRY
Court: Mississippi Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: Mississippi
Decision Date: 1831-06
Citations: 1 Walker 389
Docket Number: 
Parties: BLACK & PRATT vs. A. T. McMURTRY.
Judges: All the judges concur.
Reporter: Mississippi Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 389–389

Head Matter:
BLACK & PRATT vs. A. T. McMURTRY.
The assignee of a promissory note is vested with a legal interest therein, from the date of the assignment; and the service of process ofgarnishment upon the payee of a uote, after asignment, will not affect the rights of such assignee.
Choses inaction are not affected by a judgment, not being subject to the plaintiff’s execution.

Opinion:
OPINION OF THE COURT — by
Chiej? Justice TURNER.
This single question is presented by this verdict, for the consideration of the court: whether the assignee of a promissory note is vested with the legal interest therein, from the date of the assignment? And we are of opinion that he is, with the single exception contained in the statute, made in behalf of the maker; and the jury having found the fact of the assignment of the notes in question, on the 7th January, 1830, to the defendant, in this issue, A. T.McMurtry, by Tbomas WrenJííWpS^TOpUSl^otes; which was some days previous to the service W. Calmes, the maker of the notes, it is conside^d that judgment^bp |en-dered on the special verdict, in favor of the said .
We are of opinion that choses in action are n|t affected by tth which provides that a judgment shall be a lies; party against whom judgment is rendered, inasmiiS ject to the plaintiff's executiom
All the judges concur.