Case Name: Baker ads. Burns
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1799-07
Citations: 1 Cole. Cas. 73
Docket Number: 
Parties: Baker ads. Burns.
Judges: 
Reporter: Coleman's Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 73–74

Head Matter:
JULY TERM, 1799.
Baker ads. Burns.
TEE moved that the defendant be brought up •*-* to take the benefit of the Aft made t; for the “ relief of debtors with refpeft to the imprifonment H of their perfons.”
Munro for plaintiff objefted, iff, That in the inventory ferved on hirn the arms of the defendant are not fpeciiicd in the feheduie; 2d, That the inventory docs not particularize when he owned and had the articles, Ac. 3d, That lie is confined on a fuit for breach of prornife of marriage, and that this is to be confidered as a tort, whereas the Aft only applies to contrafts; 4th, That the inventory is not ftamped. -
Lee contra.

Opinion:
Per Curiam,
All the objections are untenable,
excepting the laft, but the inventory ought to be ftaroped, and that objection is fatal.
Motion denied.