Case Name: Mifflin v. Gasqui
Court: Philadelphia County Court of Common Pleas
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania
Decision Date: 1785-09
Citations: 1 Dall. 142
Docket Number: 
Parties: *Mifflin v. Gasqui.
Judges: 
Reporter: United States Reports
Volume: 1
Pages: 146–146

Head Matter:
*Mifflin v. Gasqui.
Insolvent act.

Opinion:
A Debtor in confinement under a magistrates execution, petitioned for his discharge under the insolvent laws. But he was remanded, because he had not applied before the adjournment; The Court observing, that it was already easy enough for debtors to get out of jail,
The proceedings in this case were under the act of 1729-30 (1 Sm. Laws, 181). Mr. Dallas afterwards, in a note to his edition of the State Laws (vol. 1, p. 258), stated the point thus, "A debtor in confinement under a magistrate's execution, presented his petition, after the court had fixed the day for hearing insobent debtors, and had adjourned; but the application was held to be too late." See Hendorson v. Allen, post, p. 149.