Case Name: Baker vs. Hunt
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1828-08
Citations: 1 Wend. 103
Docket Number: 
Parties: Baker vs. Hunt.
Judges: 
Reporter: Wendell's Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 103–103

Head Matter:
Baker vs. Hunt.
' The clerk is ?ot auíhorizecl ney paid into rule.1’ without
Motion that clerk pay over to plaintiff money received by him of the defendant. The defendant in this-cause, without obtaining a rule for that purpose, paid to the clerk of this court, at Utica, $1481, in satisfaction of the plaintiff’s demand. The clerk received the defendant’s check for the amount, but declined giving a receipt for the same, until farther advised. In the course of a day or two, he returned the draft to the defendant, informing him that he was not authorized to receive the money, without a rule of court for that purpose. And a motion was now made by the attorney for the plaintiff that the clerk pay the money to him.
Lockwood, for plaintiff.
S. Beardsley, contra.

Opinion:
By the Court,
Savage, Ch. J.
The motion is denied, with costs. The clerk had no right to receive the money, without a rule of court, and acted correctly in returning it to the defendant. (See 2 T. R. 62; 1 Sell. Prac. 18, 277, 8, 9; 1 Tidd, 566.)