Case Name: Cole against Stafford
Court: New York Supreme Court of Judicature
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1803-08
Citations: 1 Cai. 249
Docket Number: 
Parties: Cole against Stafford.
Judges: 
Reporter: Caines' Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 320–321

Head Matter:
Cole against Stafford.
The want of a, stamp to an insolvent’s discharge cannot be urged as a reason to show it not duly obtained and prevent the exoneration of his bail Fraud only can affect it.
In this cause the exoneration of bail, whose principal had been relieved under the insolvent law, was opposed on the ground of the discharge not having been duly stamped according to the act then in force.

Opinion:
*Per Curiam.
We cannot go into it; the act [*250] makes the discharge conclusive, except in cases of fraud; the matter was before the court below, and they were the proper judges whether every thing was regular or not.