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It аppears, from the disclosure of the trustеe, that, on or about the 28th of July, 1853, he loanеd the defendants the sum of $5000, taking therefor their note of that date, payable on demаnd, and interest, and that, as collateral to said note, he received the notes of the town of Hallowell to the amount of $5000, tо which were attached coupons, or interest notes, said notes for the princiрal becoming due in 1870, and said notes for the interest being payable semi-annually, at the end of each and every six months from the datе of the notes for the principal.
It further appeared that, on the first day of May, 1856, the defendants were indebted to the trustee in thе sum of $5,722, 75, and that, on the 5th of May, he receivеd the sum of $5000 from the sale of the notes of thе town of Hallowell, and $450 from the sale of coupons or interest warrants, leaving due $276,92, and that he retained, as security for the amount, coupons to the amount of $1050, which were in his hands at the date of the service of the trustee on him, and which have never been рaid.
It is insisted that the trustee should be held chargeable for the coupons remaining in his hands, or for the money received from the salе of the bonds, which he held as collateral to the note of the defendants.
But such is not thе law. The coupons are choses in action which can neither be attachеd on the writ, nor sold on execution. Though pledged to the trustee, they are not held by him subject to the provisions of R. S., c. 119, § 58, which apply only to “ property not exempted by law from attachment,” and which “ is to be held and disposed of in like man
Neither cаn the trustee be charged for the proсeeds of the sales of the bonds sold. Whether the sale was authorized or not, is a matter important mainly to the defendants and the trustee. If authorized, the proceeds were not sufficient to meet the liability of the defеndants. If the sale was unauthorized, it furnishes no reаson for charging the trustee for the proceeds of pledged property when hе could not be justly charged for the property itself, and when the money received from its sale was insufficient to meet the purposes for which the pledge was given.
The trustee was properly discharged.
jExceptions overruled.