4. Will the niece succeed in an action for $1,000 against the debtor?

A debtor's $1,000 contractual obligation to a creditor was due on July 1. On the preceding June 15, the creditor called her niece and said, «As my birthday gift to you, you may collect on July 1 the $1,000 the debtor owes me.» The creditor also called the debtor and told him to pay the $1,000 to the niece on July 1. On July 1, the debtor, saying that he did not like the niece and wouldn't pay anything to her, paid the $1,000 to the creditor, who accepted it without objection.

Yes, because the creditor had effectively assigned the $1,000 debt to her
Yes, because the creditor's calls to the niece and the debtor effected a novation
No, because the creditor's acceptance of the $1,000, without objection, was in effect the revocation of a gratuitous assignment
No, because the debtor cannot be compelled to render performance to an assignee whom he finds personally objectionable

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