Court Opinion

ID: 7151018
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-07-24 15:58:15.405714+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:15:07.940594
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Opinion op the Court by
Judge Williams:
Appellee had placed various claims in the hands of an attorney for collection and took his receipt for the same. He, by written *215indorsement, assigned said claims to appellant, covenanting that if said claims “ should not net to said Davis $1,050, when collected and paid to said Davis, that I will make up the deficiency.”
This covenant is dated April 28, 1859, and suit was brought on it December 4, 1865, in which appellant avers that he has only collected of said claims the net amount of $886, and that no more can be collected because of the insolvency or removal of the debtor, and prays for a judgment against Montgomery for the remainder of the $1,050.
To this petition the court sustained a demurrer, and dismisses their equity, which judgment is sought to be reversed.
Although this was an assignment of the debts, it was also a covenant that there should be collected and paid over to Davis the net amount, $1,050, and reports that the attorney to whom Montgomery had entered the collection of three debts should still collect and pay over, and evidences a purpose that the assignee should not be compelled to use all the diligence the law imposes on an assignee. Davis, of course, must use ordinary diligence to get from the attorney the amounts collected, but he was not compelled to see that each debtor was legally proceeded against with all the vigor required by an assignee.
The averments of the petition clearly show a breach of covenant and cause of action, and the court erred in sustaining the demurrer, wherefore, the judgment is reversed with directions to overrule the demurrer and for further proceedings.