Case Name: Ex parte WILSON
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1810-07
Citations: 30 F. Cas. 88
Docket Number: 
Parties: Ex parte WILSON.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 30
Pages: 88–88

Head Matter:
Case No. 17,779.
Ex parte WILSON.
[2 Cranch, C. C. 7.]
Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
July Term, 1810.
Imprisonment for Debt—Discharge.
The court will not. on motion, discharge a prisoner for debt, who has the benefit of the bounds, because the creditor refuses to pay the daily allowance.
See Ex parte Wilson, 6 Cranch [10 U. SJ 52.
Motion by Mr. E. J. Lee, for W. Wilson, to order the marshal to discharge him from the prison-bounds, the creditor having failed to furnish him with his daily allowance, according to .the act of congress of 3d March, 1803, § 5 (2 Stat. 237). The allowance was. demanded by the marshal on the 25th of June, 1810, and refused. The daily allowance for prisoners in execution for debt, was fixed by a general order of the court, on the 13th of June, 1803.

Opinion:
THE COURT refused to make such an order for the discharge of Mr. Wilson in this summary way, because if he has a right to depart the prison-bounds he is at liberty so to do; if he has not, the order of the court would not justify the marshal in discharging him.