1 Leigh 436 | Va. | 1829
At common law, we know, choses in action were not assignable; nor could courts of law formerly take any notice of the equitable where it was distinct from the legal right. Courts of equity, however, held those assignments good, and enforced them; and, in later times, courts
This point being sufficient for the reversal of the judgment, it is not necessary to give an opinion on the other points discussed at the bar.
The other judges concurred, and the judgment was reversed.