Case Name: LINGAN v. BAYLEY
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1802-12
Citations: 15 F. Cas. 560
Docket Number: 
Parties: LINGAN v. BAYLEY.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 15
Pages: 560–560

Head Matter:
Case No. 8,370.
LINGAN v. BAYLEY.
[1 Cranch, C. C. 112.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
Dec. Term, 1802.
Bankruptcy — Imprisonment op Bankrupt during Examination.
The court will not commit a bankrupt for want of bail, who has surrendered to the commissioners, and whose examination is not closed, although the forty-two days have expired.
The bail surrendered the defendant, and the plaintiff prayed that he might be committed.
The defendant was declared bankrupt, on the 21$t of August, 1802, .and on the 2d of September he surrendered himself to the commissioners. The examination is not yet closed, although the forty-two days have expired. Bayley has appealed from the decision of the commissioners.

Opinion:
THE COURT
refused to commit the defendant.
Cooper's Bankr. Law, pp. 175, 343, was cited.