Case ID: dc_5/html/0669-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "(Thruston, J.,", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Darius Claggett v. Thomas Ward.
    If tlie defendant has been discharged under the insolvent law of Maryland the bail will be exonerated.
    Motion by Mr. R. J. Brent, for an exoneretur upon the bail-piece, the defendant having been discharged under the insolvent law of Maryland. Beers et al. v. Blaughton, 9 Peters, 329.
    
      Mr. Morfit, for the plaintiff,
    contended that as the law of Maryland went to discharge the debtor from the obligation of the contract, and as this debt was not contracted in Maryland, the act of Maryland, so far as it impaired the contract, was unconstitutional and void ; and cited Gordon v. Turner, 5 Har. & Johns. 369 ; Hickley v. Farmers Bank, 5 Gill & J. 377; 3 Story’s Com. 340, 365; Smith v. Buchannan, 1 East, 50; Campbell v. Claudius, Peters’s C. C. Rep. 484; Constitutional Class Book, 82. He also contended, that upon the principle of comity, a discharge in Maryland could not affect a citizen of this district, because a discharge here does not affect a non-resident creditor.
   The Couet

(Thruston, J.,

absent,) ordered the exoneretur to be entered, upon filing the certificate of discharge of the debtor in Maryland.