Case Name: Brodie and Denniston against Stephens
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1807-05
Citations: 2 Johns. 289
Docket Number: 
Parties: Brodie and Denniston against Stephens.
Judges: 
Reporter: Johnson's Reports
Volume: 2
Pages: 288–289

Head Matter:
Brodie and Denniston against Stephens.
The omission umtelTibe'act for t,ic relief &c. to in-’ sertmthe account of his estate, set petition!* certain debts due to him, will not prevent his discharge, if the omission appear to have arisen from misapprehension, and not from any fraudulent intent; but the court will permit the debts to be inserted in the account, when thc.debtor is brought up for his discharge.

Opinion:
The defendant in this suit, being in custody on a ca. sa. petitioned the court for his discharge, under the " act for the relief of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of their persons," usually called the 1,000/. act. On his 1 . being brought up and examined, it appeared, that in the account of his estate, set forth in the petition, the defen dant had omitted to state certain debts due to him, from a conviction that no part of them would be obtained, the persons indebted to him being insolvent. His discharge being objected to on this ground, THE COURT said, that those debts might then be inserted in the account of his estate; that he should not be prejudiced by having omitted them, since that omission did not appear to the court to proceed from a fraudulent intent.
) See Duncan v. Duborys. 3 John. Cases, 125.