Ryan

Mr. Justice Terry concurred.

This was an action in the Court below, to recover the balance of an account due from the defendants to Jonathan Nutt, and by him assigned to Ryan & Callahan, the present plaintiffs. The assignment is in these words : “ Assigned to Ryan & Callahan, Jonathan Nutt.”

The answer admits the amount due upon account, but denies any knowledge of the genuineness of the assignment.

On the trial, the defendants objected to the admission of the assignment, and the Court allowed the plaintiffs to fill up the same by adding the words, “ For value received, 1 hereby assign the within account •” leaving the names to stand.

It is contended that this account was not assignable, so as to enable *248 the assignee to maintain an action, in his own name, under the provisions of the fourth section of the amended Practice Act, passed May 15th, 1854. The right of assignment existed before the passage of the Act, and the right of the assignee to sue in his own name, is given by the first section of the amended Practice Act, passed May 7th, 1855.

There was no error in permitting the plaintiffs to fill up the assignment ; it was sufficient in the first pla.ee, and in this…