17 F. 494 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Minnesota | 1881
The rule as to voluntary payments is that the debtor may direct the application of such payments upon one of several debts due from him to the creditor. Tayloe v. Sandiford, 7 Wheat. 33. Does this rule apply to the present case? A voluntary payment, within the meaning of this rule, is one made by the debtor on his own motion, and without any compulsory process. A payment made upon execution does not fall within the rule. When, under the statute of Minnesota, a chattel mortgage is placed in the hands of the sheriff, with orders to seize and sell the mortgaged property for the purpose of paying the mortgage debt, the sale is made by vir.tue of legal proceedings, and the proceeds of the sale are in no sense voluntary payments, the application of which the debtor is authorized to direct.
If the debtor could not direct the application of the payments, could the creditor? It is strongly urged by counsel for defendant that neither party could direct a particular application, and that the law will apply the proceeds of the sale pro rata upon all the notes. Inasmuch, however, as the mortgage does not direct how the proceeds of the sale of the mortgaged property shall be applied, and since there are no circumstances from which it can be inferred that
Judgment for plaintiff.
The rule as to the application of voluntary payments is that the debtor or party paying the money may, if he chooses, direct its appropriation; if he fail, the right devolves upon the creditor; if he fail, the law will make the application according to its own notions of justice.
The direction by the debtor as to how the payment shall be applied, need not be express, but may be inferred from circumstances;
Where neither debtor nor creditor makes the application, the law will make it, “according to its own notion of the intrinsic equity and justice of the case,”
8t. Paul,- Minn., August 28,1883 Robertson Howard.
U. S. v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Wheat. 720; U. S. v. January, 7 Cranch, 572; Field v. Holland, 6 Cranch. 8; U. S. v. Eckford, 1 How. 250; Jones v. U. S. 7 How. 684; Gordon v. Hobart, 2 Story, C. C. 243; Cremer v. Higginson, 1 Mason, 338; Mayor, etc., Alexandria v. Patten, 4 Cranch, 317; Nat. Bank v. Merchants’ Nat. Bank, 94 U. S. 4,9; Stone v. Seymour. 15 Wend. 19; Pickering v. Day, 2 Del. Ch, 333; Youmans v. Heart, 34 Mich. 401; Nat. Bank v. Bigler, 83 N. Y 53: Baker v. Stackpoole, 9 Cow. 420; Chester v. Wheelright. 15 Conn. 562; Washington Bank v. Presscott, 20 Pick. 343; Whitaker v. Groover, 54 Ga. 171: Jones v. Williams, 39 Wis. 300; Lee v. Early, 44 Md. 84; Bell v. Rad-cliff, 32 Ark. 615; Moore v. Kiff, 78 Pa. St. 97; Stewart v. Hopkins, 30 Ohio St. 502; Meggott v. Mills, 1 Ld. Raymond, 286; Simson v. Ingham, 2 Barn. & C. 65; Clayton’s Case, 1 Mer. 586-610; Brooke v. Enderby, 2 Brod. & B. 70. See, generally, 2 Pars. Cont. 629-635; 2 Whart. Cont. §§ 923-934.
pattison v. Hull, (note,) 9 Cow. 773; Story, J., in Gass v. Stinson, 3 Sumn. 110; Milliken v. Tufts, 31 Me. 500. See, also, 3 Amer. Law Reg. 705; 1 Amer. Law Mag. 31.
1 Amer. Lead. Cas. *291-295.
Moss v. Adams, 4 Ired. Eq. 42. Consult 1 Domat, B. 4, tit. 1, § 8; 1 Evans’ Pothier, (3d Amer. Ed.) 422-429; Wood, Civil Law, 293; 2 Bell’s Com. 535.
Tayloe v. Sandiford, 7 Wheat. 13; Mayor, etc., v. Patten, 4 Cranch, 317; Sawyer v. Tappan, 14 N. H. 356; Fowke v. Bowio, 4 Har. & J. 566; Stone v. Seymour, 15 Wend. 19; Hanson v. Rounsavell, 74 Ill. 238.
Nat. Bank v Bigler, 83 N. Y. 53; Cremer v. Higginson, 1 Mason, 323; 1 Amer. Lead. Cas. *294.
Caldwell v. Wentworth, 14 N. H. 431; Ayer v. Hawkins, 19 Vt. 26; Bancroft v. Dumas, 21 Vt. 456; Rohan v. Hanson, 11 Cush. 44 ; Parchman v. McKinney, 12 Smedes & M. 631.
Pickett v. Merchants’ Nat. Bank, 32 Ark. 346.
Phillips v. Moses, 65 Me. 70. *
McCausland v. Ralston, 12 Nev. 195.
Brown v. Burns, 67 Me. 535.
Feldman v. Gamble, 26 N. J. Eq. 494.
McLendon v. Frost, 57 Ga.448.
Jackson v. Burke, 1 Dill. 311; Williams v. Griffith, 5 Mees. & W. 300; Waugh v. Cope, 6 Mees. & W. 824; Ashby v. James, 11 Mees. & W. 542; Murphy v. Webber, 61 Me. 478; Bancroft v. Dumas, 21 Vt. 456; Mills v. Fowkes, 5 Bing N. C. 458; Brown v. Burns, 67 Me. 535; Pond v Williams, 1 Gray, 630; Ramsay v. Warner, 97 Mass. 8 Compare Moniteau Bank v. Miller, 73 Mo. 187; Wood v. Wylds, 6 Eng. (Ark) 754; Burn v. Boulton, 2 C. B. 476.
Bobe’s Heirs v. Stickney, 36 Ala. 495; Kidder v. Norris, 18 N. H. 534.
Cole v. Trull, 9 Pick. 325; Scott v. Ray, 18 Pick. 361. See Fowke v. Bowie, 4 Har. & J. 5 6.
Shaw v. Picton, 4 Barn. & C. 716; Frazer v. Bunn, 8 Car. & P. 704; Williams v. Griffith, 5 Mees. & W. 300; Allen v. Culver, 3 Denio, 284; Brady’s Adm’r v. Hill, 1 Mo. 315; Starrett v. Barber, 20 Me. 457.
Simson v. Ingham, 2 Barn. & C. 65; Seymour v. Marvin, 11 Barb. 80; Dorsey v. Wayman, 6 Gill, 59; Bosanquet v. Wray, 6 Taunt. 597; Mayor, etc., v. Patten, 4 Cranch, 317; and see Emery v. Tichout, 13 Vt. 15; Smith v. Loyd, 11 Leigh, 517; Stamford Bank v. Benedict, 15 Conn. 438; Heilbron v. Bissell, 1 Bail. Eq. 435.
Offutt v. King, 1 McArthur, 312; Page v. Patton, 5 Pet. 304; Cremer v. Higginson, 1 Mason, 337; Hilton v. Burley, 2 N. H. 193; McMaster v. Merrick, 41 Mich. 505; Seymour v. Marvin, 11 Barb. 80.
U. S. v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Wheat. 720; Nat. Bank v. Mechanics’ Nat. Bank, 94.U. S. 437.
Cremer v. Higginson, 1 Mason, 338; Pickering v. Day, 2 Del. Ch. 333; Nat. Bank v Nat. Mechanics’ Bank, 94 U. S. 437.
Field v. Holland, 6 Cranch, 8; Stamford Bank v. Benedict, 15 Conn. 437.
Pathinson v. Hall, 9 Cow. 747; Gwinn v. Whitaker, 1 Har. & J. 754; Neal v. Allison, 50 Miss. 175.
Bank v. Rosevelt, 9 Cow. 409; Portland Bank v. Brown, 22 Me. 295.
Smith v. Loyd, 11 Leigh, 512; Pierce v. Knight, 31 V1. 701; Fairchild v. Holly, 10 Conn. 175; Pickering v. Day, 2 Del. Ch. 333; Truscott v. King, 6 N. Y. 147; Jones v. Kilgore, 2 Rich, Eq. (S. C.) 66 Jones v. U. S. 7 How. 692; Emery v. Tichout, 13 Vt. 29; Leef v. Goodwin, Taney, 462; U. S. v. Kirkpatrick, 9 Wheat. 720.
New Orleans v. Pigniolo, 29 La. Ann. 835 ; Thomas v. Kelsey, 30 Barb. 273; Baker v. Stackpoole,9 Cow. 420.