Case Name: Melancthon W. Danks, plaintiff in error, vs. Jeremiah D. Quackenbush, defendant in error
Court: New York Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1848-01
Citations: 4 How. Pr. 291
Docket Number: 
Parties: Melancthon W. Danks, plaintiff in error, vs. Jeremiah D. Quackenbush, defendant in error.
Judges: 
Reporter: Howard's Practice Reports
Volume: 4
Pages: 291–291

Head Matter:
COURT OF APPEALS.
Decisions—January Term, 1848
at the Capitol in the city of Albany.
Melancthon W. Danks, plaintiff in error, vs. Jeremiah D. Quackenbush, defendant in error.
Judgment affirmed,.
A. Taber, for plain tiff in error;
George F. Comstock, for defendant in error.

Opinion:
The decision in this case affirmed (by an equal division of the judges,) the decision of the Supreme Court, declaring the unconstitutionality of the act of April 11, 1842, extending the exemption of personal property, as to debts contracted before its passage. (Reported, 1 Comstock, 129.)