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

Case No. 8,129.
    LAW v. SCOTT.
    [3 Cranch, C. C. 295.] 
    
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    May Term, 1828.
    Insolvency — Liability bob Costs in Suit Pending at Time or Insolvency.
    An insolvent debtor who has been discharged under the insolvent act [2 Stat. 237], is not liable for the costs of a suit pending at the time of his discharge.
    [This was an action at law by the administrator of John Law against Alexander Scott.] The defendant was brought in upon a ca. sa. for costs in a suit which was pending at the time of his discharge under the insolvent act.
   THE COURT

(THRUSTON, Circuit Judge, doubting)

ordered the defendant to be discharged under the tenth section of the act for the relief of insolvent debtors within the District of Columbia.

[See Case No. 12,537.]

LAW (SCOTT v.). See Case No. 12.537.