The right to recover money paid under an unenforceable contract can be assigned if it is not purely personal. Thus the right to recover money paid by mistake,1 or to recover money paid at an erroneous tax sale,2 or to recover money lost at gambling,3 or to recover money paid for intoxicating liquor,4 may each be assigned. So the right of an insurance company to be subrogated to the rights of a mortgagee to whom the company has paid a loss may be assigned.5 A mere personal right can-not be assigned, as a right under Federal Statutes to recover usury paid to a national bank,6 or a statutory right to redeem after a foreclosure sale.7 The right to have the transfer of certain bonds by the directors of a bank to the president thereof set uside as fraudulent is personal to the bank and not assignable.8

11 O'Keefe v. Allen, 20 R. I. 414; 78 Am. St. .Rep. 884; 39 Atl. 752.

12 Herbert v. Bronson, 125 Mass. 475.

13 Jermyn v. Moffitt, 75 Pa. St. 399.

14 Threshing wheat. Sandwich Mfg. Co. v. Robinson, 83 la. 567; 14 L. R. A. 126; 49 N. W. 1031. Hauling wood. Merchants, etc., Bank v. Barnes, 18 Mont. 335; 56 Am. St. Rep. 586; 47 L. R. A. 737; 45 Pac. 218.

15 Board of Education of Salt Lake City v. Pressed Brick Co.. 13 Utah 211; 44 Pac. 709.

16 Wadhams v. Inman, 38 Or. 143; 63 Pac. 11.

17 Central Trust Co. v. Improvement Co., 169 N. Y. 314; 62 N. E. 387.

18 Nebraska Moline Plow Co. v. Fuehring, 60 Neb. 316; 83 N. W. 69.

1 Lawler v. Jennings, 18 Utah 35; 55 Pac. 60.

2 Erickson v. Brookings County: 3 S. D. 434; 18 L. R. A. 347; 53 N. W. 857.

3 Allen v. Dunham, 92 Tenn. 257; 21 S. W. 898.

4 Sellers v. Arie, 99 la. 515; 68 N. W. 814.