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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 353.
    ANDERSON’S CASE.
    [2 Cranch, C. C. 243.]
    
    Circuit Court, D. Columbia.
    May Term, 1821.
    Insolvency — Discharqe—Arrest for Prior Debt.
    A debtor, discharged under the insolvent act, cannot be arrested for a debt contracted before his discharge, although not payable till after his discharge.
    
      
       [Reported by Hon. William Cranch, Chief Judge.]
    
   James Anderson, who had been discharged under the act of congress, for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia, was arrested for a debt contracted before his discharge, but payable after his discharge.

On motion of his counsel, Mr. Fendall. THE COURT ordered him to be discharged from the arrest, upon- entering his appearance without bail.