Case Name: Baker ads. Burns
Court: New York Supreme Court
Jurisdiction: New York
Decision Date: 1799-07
Citations: 1 Cole. & Cai. Cas. 78
Docket Number: 
Parties: Baker ads. Burns.
Judges: 
Reporter: Coleman & Caines' Cases
Volume: 1
Pages: 78–78

Head Matter:
Baker ads. Burns.
LEE moved that the defendant be brought up to take the benefit of the act made “ for the relief “ of debtors with respect to the imprisonment of “ their persons.”
Munro, for the plaintiff,
objected, 1st. That in the inventory served on him, the arms of the defendant are not specified in the schedule; 2d. That the inventory does not particularize when he owned and had the articles, See. -3d. That he is confined on a suit for breach of promise of marriage, and that this is to be considered as a tort, whereas the act only applies to contracts; 4th. That the inventory is not stamped, as is . now required by «the statute of the United States.
Lee, contra.

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