Case ID: scl_9/html/0419-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Gantt.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

John Mayrant, senior, against William Myers.
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    This was an action of debt upon judgment obtained some time prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven. The plea relii t. i i jt j. /» j.1. ed on, was a discharge under the act tor the re- ° lief of insolvent debtors. There was a demurrer to the plea, and joinder therein — judgment for plaintiff on demurrer. An appeal therefrom to this Court, to reverse the decision of the Judge, and to overrule the demurrer, on the following ground: that the discharge under the insolvent debtors’ act discharged all debts on judgments as 44 suing creditors.”
   The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Mr. Justice Gantt.

The insolvent debtors’ acts have heretofore received the construction contended for by the defendant ; and I think the construction a just one.

I am of opinion that the decision should be reversed, and that the demurrer should he overruled,

Colcockr, Cheves, Johnson, and JYott, J. concurred.